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Jul112009

Italian nuclear waste? No grazie! But court gives OK 

A federal judge has ruled that a Utah company can dispose of foreign nuclear waste at its facility in the western Utah desert, the Associated Press reports. EnergySolutions Inc. wants to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy. After processing in Tennessee, about 1,600 tons would be disposed of in Utah.