SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal appeals court has ruled that an interstate compact can block EnergySolutions Inc. from disposing of low-level radioactive waste from foreign countries in Utah's west desert.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Tuesday that a compact on low-level radioactive waste that Utah belongs to has the authority to regulate the private facility.
Attorneys for EnergySolutions had argued Utah and the interstate compact had no right to say which wastes it could dispose of at its private site.
The company had sought to dispose of about 1,600 tons of waste from Italy's shuttered nuclear power program in Utah. Two Utah governors opposed disposing of foreign waste in Utah.
The company has since abandoned those plans.
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