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Members of a nearby tribal community say the site is negatively impacting their health and calling for it to shut down.
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It's been more than thirty years since Yucca Mountain in Nevada was picked as the nation's nuclear waste site, and the state has been fighting the...
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A state Senate committee advanced legislation Thursday that would eliminate a policy obstacle that prevents EnergySolutions from accepting large volumes…
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A Utah state senator wants his fellow lawmakers to go on record opposing the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in neighboring Nevada.State Sen. Gene…
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State regulators are asking for public input on a radioactive waste company’s request for special permission to bury depleted uranium waste at its Tooele…
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Researchers at Idaho State University said they’ve lost a small amount of weapons-grade plutonium. Federal officials aren’t pleased.
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Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. announced plans a year ago to buy a Texas company, Waste Control Specialists.The companies share a niche: They…
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The Radiation Control and Waste Management Board is looking for a new way to get guidance on regulating the medical use of radiation -- after scrapping…
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Last year state lawmakers combined two environmental agencies -- one that handled radiation control and one that oversaw solid and hazardous waste…
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The panel that used to set Utah’s radiation control policies held its final meeting on Tuesday. And, as its last official act, the Utah Radiation Control…
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The U.S. Department of Energy says it’s moved six million tons of uranium mill tailings off the old Atlas mill site in Moab. That’s 38-percent of the…
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Salt Lake City nuclear waste company EnergySolutions announced Monday that it will be acquired by private equity firm Energy Capital Partners. But…