Comments about ‘Salt Lake County opposes depleted uranium shipments’

Thank you everyone who is opposing this type of uranium from coming to Utah. No one else wants it as it becomes more dangerous over time and Physic Professors who advise U.S. Presidents have pointed out that nuclear waste shouldn't be stored in earthquake prone areas. Plus, the National Emergency Preparedness Advisors point out that transporting such nuclear material is prone to becoming a bomb if terrorists hit it or a bomb if there is any kind of accidents.
Keep opposing it. Let it stay where it is used.

Most of the Uranium material used in the fuel cycle in the United States was mined from the Colorado Plateu of which the South Eastern Corner of Utah is part of. So Utah refined exported this material but will not dispose of it. Lets just put it back where it came from in the empty mines around Moab. Sure this material gets hotter but you are talking 50,000 years from now. Then you can dig it up and roll on it and get as much radiation as flying across the Atlantic ocean a couple of times.

Bring it back to where it was mined...

The ignorance train just never seems to stop.

Jfarmer9

First of all, BR, there is no dirty bomb capability with the waste at EnergySolutions. Second, we shouldn't be thankful that the waste isn't coming to Utah because now it is going to Texas, specifically Energy Solutions big competitor. Also, Randy Horiuchi should have abstained from the vote, as he is a lobbyist for one of the main competitors of Energy Solutions. Talk about a conflict of interest. Thank you for hurting our state Mr. Horiuchi for your own personal gain.

Boy, what would the media do without HEAL Utah as a "scientific" source...

BR,

I'd be interested to read the study by these physics professors who say depleted uranium shouldn't be stored in earthquake prone areas. I checked in a quick Google search and couldn't find anything on that topic.

I really don't see how an earthquake, even a bad one, could disturb properly stored radioactive material. I'm not an expert, but logic seems to counter this argument.

I think KIL makes a pretty good argument. Utah made money mining this stuff so one could argue that it is partially our responsibility to help dispose of it.

The county jumping on this issue is as silly as when Kanab voted for the US to get out of the UN--it is the wrong jurisdiction pretending the issue can be decided by themselves.

They oppose DU, but Pete Corroon takes money from Energy Solutions. Mixed message? I think so.

KIL, I didn't realize that Utah used most of the uranium in Southern Utah. If that is the case, I think we should be the ones to store it.

Thank you for making this statement against this pollution coming to Utah!

We DO NOT want this stuff.

They voted because the BYU professor was there to explain his political "science" with his anti-nuclear activist friends, again.

Isn't he supposed to be in class? He's trying to save humanity in 1 million years from 'Son of Lake Bonneville' and complete destruction of everything in the path of the ferocious Great Salt Lake.

Don't ask him to explain about how he presided over renewing their license that allows depleted uranium. He tries to make everyone believe he never knew that it could come, is Class A, or was being isolated in Utah as part of the lowest kinds of radioactive waste.

Ethics indeed. Professor, it's 10:00 AM, do you know where your students are?

Once people here realize that dealing with nuclear waste = MONEY & JOBS, which a lot of us seem to be lacking these days, they will come around. This stuff is piling up around the country, out in the open. The science behind a repository at Yucca is solid. Obama killed it to get Reid reelected, but he won't. The numerous lawsuits and liability for the waste will prompt congress to act. Hopefully sooner than later.

If people only knew what is currently being transported on their highways and railroads...

They don't. Because it's safe, and heavily regulated.

The complete ignorance of the local media, and the political establishment in Utah about Depleted Uranium(DU) is irrational.
(1) The radioactivity from 70000 metric tons of DU and its daughter isotopes: Now; 50000 years from Now; or a million years from Now is less than the radioactivity of natural uranium, and its daughter isotopes underneath Salt Lake County to a depth of 2 meter.

(2) There is more radioactivity per unit volume from the granite peaks around SLC than in the soil underneath Salt Lake County

(3) If you use fertilizer with phosphates for your lawns then, then you are probably putting Naturally occuring uraniun on you lawns.