Politics Up Close: HEAL Utah on Depleted Uranium Study

03.05.2010 by Jeff Robinson

(KCPW News) Governor Gary Herbert has struck a deal to keep additional depleted uranium out of the state for now.  But thousands of drums of it are already here, some buried, some about to be buried in the west desert at EnergySolutions facility.  But a new report commissioned by the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah says this violates federal and state law on low-level waste disposal.  We’re joined by Executive Director Vanessa Pierce and Dr. Arjun Makhijani with the Institute for Environmental and Energy Research.

 

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