Comments about ‘Utah takes radioactive waste from 3 states with own dumps’

Interesting! And yet when Tooele County lists their top 10 tax payers, Energy Solutions isn't listed. It seems that Energy Solutions is making money by importing nuc waste from other states, but not paying taxes on that income. Or maybe I'm just too cynical, after all Utah has the best politicians that money can buy. Public interest be damned

Very interesting. David Jay, would you happen to know where to find that Tooele County list online?

Tooele Transcript online about two weeks ago. I was shocked to see that Energy Solutions wasn't on the list.

Our family feels our dad's life was shorten from hauling radio active materials. There were other contributing factors to his death. He was very creative, always inventing tools, making machines work better.
He was employed by the National Park Service. Mayo O. Zabriskie help make tourists to national parks, monuments & recreation area. Our father was unable to graduate from high school due the industrial revolution and the great depression that swept our nation.

Maybe because EnergySolutions is not based in Tooele County, but Salt Lake County. Also, the tipping fees paid to Tooele County are fees, not taxes.

Energy Solutions owns a significant area in the western desert. It appears to be a larger area than Clean Harbors at Aragonite. Last I checked property taxes were charged based on where the property is located, not where a corporation is headquartered. I might be wrong but considering the other waste handlers on the list, I would think Energy Solutions would be in the top ten, but they might have a sweetheart deal and not be paying their full share. I don't know.

This whole thing makes me angry! WE won't take anything from europe, but we will take it from all the U.S. states even if they have their own dump! That's just plain stupid! Where will Utah dump their waste when these dumps are full of other states waste? That's right, no where...who's going to take Utah waste? If we are dumb enough to take other states waste!

I feel the regional nuclear waste compact from the 80's is outadated and irrelevant to the world's problem of safe disposal today. It has been proven that the desert's of Utah, New Mexico, and Nevada are among the safest places for disposal in the world. The salt caverns of New Mexico have been proven to safely contain all the worlds nuclear waste for the next tens of thousands of years, but regional politics and fear have halted progress. It's time to grow up and step up to the plate Utah.

There are whole communities in NY that are abandoned because schools were built on top of radiactive waste sites and black "sludge" was seeping into basements and killing children and making them sick. What happened to the waste? It's still sitting there 30 feet under the ground with a clay cap on it.

Dear Glen, that would be Love Canal in New York and that was toxic waste which remains toxic FOREVER. It was not low-level radioactive waste which has a finite lifetime and is not DUMPED, but stored in robust, engineered containers in a monitored facility. The press needs to stop misrepresenting how LLRW is disposed of in these facilities.