A US company is "importing 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy" and the federal regulators have informed Congress they can not stop them. Legislation has just now been introduced in the Senate to ban the importation of radioactive waste. The company wants to "process the waste in Tennessee and then store the remaining 1600 tons" at a private site in Utah. This source says that there are applications from Brazil and Mexico to dispose waste in Utah.
(Source: "Regulators warn of waste dumped by other nations". No author listed. In The Virginian Pilot on 10/18/09).
Update: That company is "Energy Solutions". The NRC says the importation can not be stopped and congressmen from Utah are trying to get legislation banning the disposal.
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