Re: Utah To Discourage Nuke Waste Plan

["Robert D. H. Aft" <AllianceScaff@snet.net>]

Not exactly the warm welcome the IOC got, Huh?


Sandy Perle wrote:
> 
> Friday March 19 1:17 AM ET
> 
> Utah To Discourage Nuke Waste Plan
> 
> SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In a bid to discourage the storage of
> nuclear waste at an Indian reservation, Gov. Mike Leavitt has
> signed a bill requiring eight utilities to shoulder full liability in case
> of an accident.
> 
> The law strips the power companies, their officers and shareholders
> of a limited legal shield offered to some companies as a way of
> encouraging business development.
> 
> It also requires the governor and the Legislature to approve rights of
> way used to carry the waste to the planned temporary storage
> facility on the Skull Valley Indian Reservation, 40 miles west of Salt
> Lake City.
> 
> ``We think this is an appropriate thing, given that we have made it
> perfectly clear we don't want this waste here,'' Leavitt said
> Thursday. ``If it's so safe, why don't they just keep it where it is?''
> 
> The 135-member Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians is split over
> a proposal to build the facility. Spent radioactive rods from power
> plants would be taken to the reservation to await shipment to a
> permanent storage site yet to be picked by Congress.
> 
> The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to make a final
> decision on the plan in 2001. Utah officials have agreed to fund a
> lawsuit by tribal members opposed to the plan.
> 
> Sue Martin, a spokeswoman for the utilities, said the law is
> unnecessary because the consortium already believed it would be
> liable for an accident.
> 
> The utilities involved are Southern California Edison, GPU Nuclear
> Corporation, Northern States Power, Consolidated Edison of New
> York, Illinois Power, Indiana Michigan Power, Southern Nuclear
> Operating Company and Genoatech.
>
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