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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah and seven other western states want a radioactive waste compact in the southeast to close a loophole that allows foreign nuclear waste to be disposed in Utah.
The Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste is asking one of its southeastern counterparts to quit allowing EnergySolutions Inc. to relabel foreign waste as domestic waste once it undergoes processing in Tennessee.
The compact has banned the Salt Lake City-based company from accepting foreign waste at its dump in the western Utah desert. EnergySolutions contends the compact has no authority over the dump.
A federal court is expected to rule next fall on the matter.
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