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A photographer captures the radiation tag on a 399 foot-long trailer assembly which will haul the retired steam generator component from The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Onofre, Calif. on July 26, 2011. A massive 192-wheel trailer will make four trips this year to haul old steam generator parts from the California nuclear power plant to Utah for disposal. The Orange County Register reported Wednesday that the effort to take the four 380-ton parts from Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to Clive, Utah, will begin in the next week. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Jebb Harris)

Massive trailer to haul nuclear waste from Calif. to Utah

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 5:02pm

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — A massive 192-wheel trailer will make four trips to haul old generator parts considered to be low-level nuclear waste from California to Utah for disposal.

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EnergySolutions gets permission to incinerate German radioactive waste in Tennessee

Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 1:34pm

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved licenses that will allow up to 1,000 tons of Germany's low-level radioactive waste to be brought here for incineration.

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EnergySolutions fined for radioactive waste breach

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 25, 2011 - 5:12pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- State regulators slapped Utah nuclear waste processor EnergySolutions Inc. with a fine this week for handling waste that is more radioactive than its license allows.

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EnergySolutions finds accepted nuke waste violated rules

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 28, 2011 - 4:06pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah company is promising to tighten nuclear materials handling rules after discovering it took in waste with radioactivity levels higher than allowed.

Healthy Environment Alliance Utah chief Christopher Thomas says the state shouldn't let Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. off the hook.

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Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham and his menagerie of puppets, including Peanut, perform Wednesday at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.

Dunham troupe storms SLC

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 7:59pm

Coming soon to an arena near you -- Jeff Dunham.

The ventriloquist has embarked on his 2011 arena tour, which will take him to several continents.

Yet it was only five years ago that he was touring smaller, intimate clubs, and performing in front of only a few hundred people. That changed with the premiere of his Comedy Central special "Arguing With Myself," which introduced him to the nation.

Now only a stadium can hold his popularity.

"When we first started doing these huge arenas, I was concerned that the intimacy of the 300-seat clubs that I had grown to know so well would be missing," wrote Jeff Dunham in an e-mail interview in advance of his one-night-only show in Salt Lake City.

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EnergySolutions wants to burn German nuke waste in Tenn.

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 12:55pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Utah firm is seeking permission to burn radioactive waste from Germany at its incinerator in Oak Ridge.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is accepting comments on the request by EnergySolutions to burn 1,000 tons of German radioactive waste at Oak Ridge and return the ash and leftovers to Germany for disposal.

NRC spokesman David McIntyre said Tuesday the request was posted Nov. 30. He said the NRC allows 30 days for comments and any request for a hearing.

McIntyre said the company has incinerated foreign waste, including shipments from Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

A federal court ruling has blocked disposal of the foreign waste in Utah.

EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker told The Tennessean in Nashville that whatever remains after processing must be returned to the originating country.

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Lee gets connected

Standard-Examiner Editorial Board Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 8:36am

One of the pleasant fictions of this year's U.S. Senate campaign was that Republican Sen.-elect Mike Lee was some sort of firebrand, independent, Tea Party I'm-against-the-establishment -- dare we say Palinesque? -- renegade Republican. It was all nonsense.

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Court rules compact can block waste

Brock Vergakis, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 7:51pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that an interstate compact can block EnergySolutions Inc. from disposing of low-level radioactive waste from foreign countries in Utah's west desert.

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