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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has turned over thousands of pages of documents that might help explain why it recently decided to classify large quantities of depleted uranium as the least hazardous type of low-level radioactive waste.
The NRC's March decision could open the door for more than 1 million tons of depleted uranium to be disposed of in Utah and Texas.
Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Edward Markey, D-Mass., had requested that the NRC give them all e-mails, meeting notes, memoranda and analyses related to the depleted uranium decision.
They contend the NRC erred in its 3-1 decision, which was made along party lines.
NRC spokesman David McIntyre says the documents were delivered Tuesday.
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