Utah Green Lights Continued Disposal Of Depleted Uranium

摘要

Utah regulators this week declined a request by environmentalists to impose a moratorium on EnergySolu-tions' disposal of depleted uranium in the state while the Nuclear Regulatory Commission finishes crafting a rule on burial of the low-level radioactive waste.rnBy an 8-3 vote, the Utah Radiation Control Board denied a request from Heal Utah, an environmental group, to bar EnergySolutions from burying any more of the mildly radioactive material at its Toole County disposal facility until the NRC finishes a rulemaking that could impose new requirements on how depleted uranium must be buried.