Japan sending contaminated dirt to Utah

[struggle4progress]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SALT LAKE CITY -- A shipment of 500 tons of uranium-contaminated soil from Japan is headed for a mill in Utah's southeastern desert.

International Uranium's White Mesa mill, south of Blanding, is set to accept the shipment, which the government considers "ore" for processing.

Utah's environmental activists fear, however, that the shipment could be a sign that the state is destined to become an international dumping ground for radioactive waste -- not just a national one.

"It's the precedent," said Claire Geddes, pointing out that the state already has the nation's largest privately owned and operated low-level radioactive waste site and that a high-level storage facility is planned. "This (Japanese waste) is a scenario for a nightmare to me." <snip>

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Waste industries have frequently played a game where "resource materials" sent to them suddenly became "waste."

[MADem]

1. America, America, the world dumps their garbage on thee n/t

[Benhurst]

2. That's what happens to Third World countries.