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Congress To Resubmit Nuclear Waste Ban
Tenn. Company Wants To Import 20,000 Tons Of Waste From Italy
POSTED: 4:48 pm CST January 13,
2009
UPDATED: 6:49 pm CST January 13,
2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Wednesday, Congress will resubmit a bill to ban the United States from taking in nuclear waste from other countries.Congressman Bart Gordon is calling his proposal the 2009 Rid Act, for radioactive import deterrence.A Tennessee nuclear processing company said it wanted to import 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from Italy.A portion of it would then be dumped in a Utah landfill.Gordon and his co-sponsors said there isn't enough space in the country for our own dangerous waste.At last count, there were 104 commercial nuclear energy plants in the United States.
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