EnergySolutions applied for licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to import radioactive waste from decommissioned Italian nuclear power plants through the ports of New Orleans and Charleston, South Carolina. The company intends to process the radioactive waste in its facility in Tennessee and transport the remainder to its disposal site in Utah.…
The application asks for a permit to allow the C&D waste to be piled to a height of 65 feet and to allow 100 trucks of waste to be brought to the landfill every day.
The north boundary of the property is formed by Community Canal which flows into Bayou Braud.…