Courts, Congress And Regulators Holding Up Italy Waste Resolution

摘要

It will be more than a year before a U.S. District Court will deliberate whether regulators were allowed to ban the importation of Italy's radioactive waste to a Utah repository.rnMeanwhile, legislation designed to ban the foreign waste slogs through Congress. And the company that wants to take the Italian waste has found its license for the project is bogged down by regulators still mulling whether to hold a public hearing before ruling on the plan.rnThese developments portend a long wait for the outcome of EnergySolutions' controversial plan to import 20,000 tons of waste from Italy's reactor cleanups and bury about 1,600 tons of it at the company's facility in Clive, Utah.