Comments about ‘Committee approves ban on foreign waste to Utah’

The committee was right. Each country should dispose of their own nuclear waste and the US should not become the world's nuclear dumping ground. I hope Congress passes a bill that is strong enough to prevent this question from ever coming up again and that the Senate will pass a similar bill.

Climate Control bill will make that law moot. That biil will allow all nuclear waste to be shipped anywhere to keep up with demands of global warming protocols.

So much for all that potential tax revenue for Utah.

Maybe the reason why the Republicans want to allow importation of this waste is because Energy Solutions is one of Senator Bennett's greatest participants towards his campaign funds......

Get Bennett - Out of the Senate

Please retire, you are not for hire.

Time for new blood, not this N-Waste Crud.

I agree with Phil, Utah is missing out. Utah is a desert, most of the state is unpopulated! This was a golden opportunity to create another source of revenue by just storing some junk in the middle of nowhere.

Enjoy your desert!

I don't like the idea of nuclear waste coming to Utah and can't think of an amount of monetary compensation that should make it okay.

Let's store this waste in your basement--
I personally don't want the remnants of an explosion at the waste site to drift over my house with a good strong wind out of the west-- Utah may be desert but we are still people and have been used for nuclear testing in the past with "HARMLESS" material drifting over Southern Utah from test blasts in Nevada.
Just wondering Phil and Lost Chance, what are your jobs at Energy Solutions??

Darn why can't Utah be the world's dumping ground for nuclear waste. We are already the dumping ground for right wing nuts.

I don't feel that it is appropriate for those who do not live within the area to be given the right to make the decision that would turn what is basically our backyard into a toxic waste dump. Yes, this is a desert, and not a National Park, but it has a beauty of it's own. There is already enough waste in this area. The chemical weapon burning facility which is claimed to harmless, and other industry that is polluting on its own. I am not a hardcore environmentalist, but am a conservasionist, and I believe that this planet has amazing resources that we should use, and use wisely. It is not rational to think that a monetary gain (for whom?) makes it the prudent, and wise action to take when it creates a problem for future generations to have to deal with, nor for the current one. We already have enough life and health threatening issues in this area. PLEASE do not add mere to it. This is not the solution for anyone. Let them find a way to deal with it in their own countries.

Thank goodness for this decision!
I hope they keep this garbage away from Utah.

I can't say I know of what remnants of explosions you are speaking of that we are taking into the state. If you read the article you'd know that these are things like lab coats that would be coming from Italy. And seriously how does the radioactive fallout of southern Utah relate to the Italy Waste issue? If you plan on reacting like this every time the word nuclear is mentioned I wonder what kind of progress you expect in this nation. Lost Chance is right about the serious tax benefits this could bring to Utah citizens. We are going to miss out on such things what a loss for us. You also better stay away from your smoke alarm and not fly on airplanes because they'll give you more radiation than the waste going into Clive. Get educated about anything regarding nuclear, I have and I'm only a poor Freshman in College.

We do not need other people's garbage!!!! Especially radioactive garbage!!!!! Thank you to those fighting to keep that waste away from us !!!!!

does Utah continue to blindly follow - and lead - the Republican Party when that party continues to treat us like junkyard dogs? Matheson (Dem from Utah) sponsors the bill, but the republicans keep fighting it - because it fits with the republican party mantra: "The more it helps the rich get richer, the more right it is."

As for the "low-level" argument, remember the old saying, "Once the camel gets his nose under the tent, it won't be long before you have the whole camel standing in the tent." If you think the world is only looking for somewhere to store their "low-level" waste, you are deluding yourselves - this will only be the start. How long will it be before EnergySolutions is competing with the Goshutes to be a temp. storage facility for high-level waste - first from the US and then for the rest of the world? After all, it's just a desert. It's just a vast waste land with no intrinsic value.

The vote in congress is a said commentary on the Republican Party. But, as our legislature proves almost daily, it is the best party money can buy.