AFX UK Focus) 2007-02-09 20:11 GMT :
Utah nuclear sludge cleanup delayed
SALT LAKE CITY (AFX) - Cleanup of radioactive sludge near the Colorado River — a major source of drinking water across the West — may be pushed back by 16 years, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.
In 2005, when the government said it would haul the uranium tailings to a lined pit, the job was supposed to be done by 2012. At a House committee hearing Thursday, Bodman said the schedule now calls for the later (...)