"We're pleased with the outcome," said Mark Walker, spokesman for EnergySolutions. "We feel that it's the right decision, and we look forward to continued work and success with Section 32 at our facility.

"We appreciate the Legislature considering the bill and looking at it for its merits, and for the work that went into it and the time they spent" with SB155.

Vanessa Pierce, director of the Health Environment Alliance of Utah, said passage of SB155 "shows how incredibly out of touch legislators are from their constituents and the general public," she said in an e-mail to the Deseret Morning News.

"EnergySolutions had an army of lobbyists supporting SB155," she said, adding that the company made generous donations to legislators. "It's no wonder this bill passed so handily."

Pierce added, "The power to stop this bill is now in the governor's hands."

In the poll, 8 percent strongly favored the bill, 10 percent somewhat favored; 12 percent somewhat opposed and 66 percent strongly opposed it. Altogether, 418 Utahns were interviewed and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent.

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