Chris, Thanks for bringing this up. This is a big deal to us here in East TN. Most of the processing of Italian waste would occur at Y12....as if Y12 doesn't already have enough waste.

Everyone should take the effort to comment on this. The end of the comment period is sometime in June.

1) U.S. Rep. David Davis (TN-1,R; Johnson City) accepts October 2007 campaign donations from attroney representing Studsvik, Inc.

U.S. Rep. Davis entry on FCC record conceals actual donor's company name, location misleading:

DICAMILLO, JOSEPH
WILMETTE IL 60091
10/02/2007 500.00
STUDSZIK INC./COUNCIL
[FEC FILE NUMBER] 28930026490

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Anti-incinerator petition circulates
Johnson City Press
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By Jim Wozniak
Erwin Bureau Chief
jwozniak@johnsoncitypress.com

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A Second Crisis in Radioactive Waste
The way things are going, low-level nuclear waste could end up in
everyone's backyard.
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By Joseph DiCamillo Friday, August 17, 2007
Filed under: Government & Politics, Science & Technology

"A third option—the most environmentally-conscientious one—is for the
government to promote techniques that stabilize and minimize the volume of low-level waste prior to disposal. The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission in 1981 issued a policy calling for increased attention to this option, but the Commission has done little to implement it. Those technologies can lengthen the life of disposal sites without the need for expansion as well as substantially reducing the possibility of contamination outside of disposal site boundaries. An effective market-based option available to the federal government is to end the practice, followed by some disposal sites and state governments, of price discrimination. This practice results in the disposal facilities charging higher rates and taxes for stabilized and compacted waste than for the same volume of untreated waste. As a result, the United States fails to use optimally our scarce disposal capacity.

>>>There is no more time to wait. The federal government must do everything possible to encourage or require the few existing disposal sites to stabilize and reduce the volume of low-level waste. And direct federal intervention is necessary to ensure that after June 2008, 28 states (housing 91 of the 104 reactors in the U.S.) can deposit their "Class B and C" waste in a designated disposal site, rather than leaving it scattered at power plants, universities, and hospitals. After the actions in Utah and South Carolina, the clock is ticking.

Joseph DiCamillo is the general counsel of Studsvik, Inc., a subsidiary of a Swedish firm providing nuclear technology and radiological services to the nuclear industry around the world."

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Washington Group Joint Venture Offers Promising Technology for
Treatment of Radioactive Waste
June 26, 2002
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Boise, Idaho - Washington Group International, Inc., through its
Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company subsidiary,
announced today that it has formed a joint venture with Studsvik, Inc.
to offer a promising, non-incineration thermal technology that could
significantly cut the cost and time to treat radioactive and hazardous
wastes throughout the United States Department of Energy complex.

The new company, THOR Treatment Technologies(SM), will capitalize on
the patented THOR(SM) Pyrolysis/Steam Reforming Technology developed by Studsvik and already utilized at its Erwin, Tennessee, facility to treat radioactive waste for the commercial nuclear industry.

"Our proven technology is well suited for the destruction, conversion,
or neutralization of certain constituents found in a broad range of
radioactive and other waste materials, especially the DOE's most
problematic and costly waste streams," said Tom Oliver, president of
Studsvik, Inc. and chairman of the joint venture's board of directors.

Washington Group and its Westinghouse Government Environmental
Services Company LLC bring to the joint venture several decades of
experience in all phases of work at DOE facilities across the country,
including Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, West Valley Demonstration Project, and Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.

Washington Group provides a full spectrum of services from design
through construction, operation, and dismantlement of highly hazardous
materials and process facilities.

"The combination of the THOR(SM) technology and our extensive nuclear
facilities experience will provide the DOE with the option to cut years and billions of dollars from its cleanup mission," said Ralph DiSibio, president of Washington Energy and Environment.

"We're currently in the process of meeting with officials at several DOE facilities across the country who are interested in learning about innovative methods to accelerate cleanup and site closure," said John
McKibbin, president of THOR Treatment Technologies(SM). "We are proud
to be among the private sector businesses that have chosen to apply
their expertise to the nation's most pressing environmental cleanup
challenges."

Studsvik, Inc. is a subsidiary of Studsvik Holding, Inc., which is a subsidiary of the Swedish-owned company Studsvik AB. Studsvik AB is a high-technology company that has a leading position in the nuclear industry. Studsvik AB develops and markets products and services that help solve its customers' environmental, safety, and quality problems in connection with the use of nuclear technology.

Washington Group International, Inc., is a leading international engineering and construction firm. With more than 35,000 employees at work in 40 states and more than 30 countries, the company offers a full life-cycle of services as a preferred provider of premier science, engineering, construction, program management, and development in 14 major markets.

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ANTITRUST CLAIMS: ENERGYSOLUTIONS' COMPETITORS BEING INTERVIEWED BY JUSTICE
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Judy Fahys
07/13/2007
The Salt Lake Tribune

Competitors of EnergySolutions are being interviewed by the U.S. Justice Department about antitrust allegations being raised against the Salt Lake City-based company

The Weapons Complex Monitor, a newsletter of the nuclear cleanup industry, said federal investigators have spoken with at least two competing companies in the waste-treatment business. Perma-fix
Environmental Services Inc. is an Atlanta-based nuclear-waste processing company, and Studsvik Corp. is a Swedish company with two low-level waste processing facilities in Tennessee.

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links:

Federal Election Commission
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FEC Candidate and PAC/Party Summaries:
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DAVIS, DAVID ID: H6TN01313 INCUMBENT
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FEC - Individuals Who Gave To: DAVIS, DAVID
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Center for Responsive Politics  lobbying@crp.org
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[Rep. David Davis "edits" of FEC records are failing to be captured by
such internet databases]

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"A Second Crisis in Radioactive Waste
The way things are going, low-level nuclear waste could end up in
everyone's backyard."
(link...)
By Joseph DiCamillo Friday, August 17, 2007
Filed under: Government & Politics, Science & Technology

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Studsvik
(link...)

About Studsvik Inc.
Treatment of Low-Level Radioactive Waste in Erwin and Memphis, TN
Studsvik Processing Facility Erwin, LLC
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