U.S. grants license to N.M. uranium plant

Associated Press by SUE MAJOR HOLMES | Jun. 23, 2006 (News Report)

The plant would generate a form of waste that no U.S. disposal site can handle, and no U.S. processing facility exists that can convert the waste into lower-level radioactive material. The plant could run at full capacity for eight to 10 years before running out of onsite space for the material. LES has an agreement with a French company to build such a plant in this country, but no site has been selected and no license has been issued. Full Story »

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by Rod Amis - Oct. 1, 2008

My quibble with this story is that, though while informative and highly newsworthy, it lacks balance. Up until the last 'graph, you'd have no impression that there might be major opposition to the plant. It highly the extreme ambiguity of actually addressing the waste problem but most of the sources are boosters and supporters of fast-tracking the facility.