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Ohio Waste Is Too Hot for Utah, Scholar Says.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003

By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 19--Waste from an Ohio Superfund cleanup is so dangerous Congress has no business dispatching it to a Tooele County radioactive waste landfill, says a former policy adviser to the U.S. Energy secretary.

"This is not your garden variety of low-level waste," said Robert Alvarez, senior policy adviser to three Energy secretaries during the Clinton administration. "This is nasty stuff."

The waste, leftovers from highly concentrated nuclear fuel for bomb-making, is considered so hazardous, Alvarez added, it should be sent instead to an underground repository similar to those used for plutonium-tainted waste.

His comments come as Congress prepares to...

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