EnergySolutions OKs deal to buy Duratek

Among the company's goals is to work with universities in Utah to help educate top scientists and engineers in the field, he said. "We would like for Utah to become one of the centers of those educational opportunities," he said.

Creamer said the former Envirocare low-level radioactive waste disposal facility at the Clive, Tooele County, railroad siding would continue its present operations.

"The Clive facility will stay just like it is," he said. It will accept only Class A low-level waste.

"We have no plans to bring any different type of waste into our Clive facility," he said. The company would have liked to expand onto adjacent land it owns, called Section 29, but Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. opposed it.

"We have sufficient capacity in Section 32," with retooling that was done, he said. "We have sufficient capacity for our needs out into the future."

Not everybody was delighted with the emergence of EnergySolutions. Jason Groenewold, director of the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah, said he was concerned about the change.

"They are taking a monster bite of all nuclear waste disposal," he said of EnergySolutions. HEAL's concern is that with a disposal site already in Utah, Groenewold said, "all paths (for nuclear waste) will eventually lead to Utah."

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