In 2009, then-Gov. Jon Huntsman vowed to lay on the railroad tracks to stop shipments of depleted uranium from coming into EnergySolutions’ landfill in picturesque Clive.
Had he done that, maybe we never would have had the anonymous op-ed in The New York Times dissing President Donald Trump (which many have speculated was written by Huntsman; he sorta denied it and I kinda believe him).
At any rate, the outcome of that dust-up between EnergySolutions and the governor was the initiation of a thorough assessment by Utah’s Radiation Control Board to determine whether the company could indeed store the waste safely.