(UNEDITED) Ever since the feel-good television ads that touted Energy Solutions (the reborn Envirocare) as a safe nuclear steward and public spirited entity, it has been pretty obvious that the company intends to use its land in the west desert to stockpile as much nuclear waste as possible and eventually to become the de facto national nuclear waste dump.
This is being borne out by Energy Solutions' recent pushes to import foreign waste, to store waste that becomes hotter over the years, and now to expand its footprint. With the demise of Yucca Mountain as the planned national nuclear waste repository, Utah is looking more and more like the final solution. Energy Solutions is laughing all the way to the bank.
And the citizens, who are now able to enjoy the benefits of nuclear waste stored nearby, will, as usual, be the ones around to pay the cost for the eventual disasters or long-term cleanup. After the years of study and funding that went into Yucca Mountain we see virtually no studies or funding to determine the long term viability and possible health/environmental effects of Utah becoming the nation's repository of choice. One would think we might have learned something from being downwinders.
Gibbs and Catherine Smith
Kaysville
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