Depleted uranium already here:..and feds have no rules yet on storing large quantities of it. (Utah)

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2280682/

Significant quantities of depleted uranium are already buried in Utah, well in advance of new federal regulations aimed at determining how much of the unusual metal can be disposed of safely in one place.

The Utah Radiation Control Board heard Tuesday that 49,000 tons of "DU," as it's often called, has been taken to EnergySolutions Inc.'s specialized landfill in Tooele County since the site opened in 1988.

Radiation Control Division Director Dane Finerfrock told board members about the DU volumes as part of his report on recent decisions by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Federal regulators reaffirmed their decision last month to keep DU's hazard rating as "Class A," the category used for the least-dangerous low-level radioactive waste and considered suitable for "small volumes" of DU, about 1 to 11 tons. The NRC also said it would begin to craft regulations for "large volumes" of DU that need disposal in a couple of years, as new uranium enrichment plants come online.

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Put it back into the mine it came from.

As pointed out in the article:


This was one of the problems with Yucca mountain.
Also, uranium is being increasingly mined using ISL, you really want to pump this crap back into the groundwater?

If you have 100 tons of uranium ore that has 95 tons of U-235 and 5 tons of U-238, what does it matter if you take away the 5 tones of U-238? The U-235 is still going to decay regardless, is it not?

Pump sulfuric acid or ammonium carbonate into ore-bearing rock, mobilize uranium (and other metals), pump out leachate, extract uranium, pump contaminated leachate back into ground water.

A loverly way to pollute...