Environmental groups raise alarm over mislabeled nuclear waste shipments through Utah

(Jeff Chatlosh | The Morning News via AP file photo) File) A CSX Train with spent nuclear fuel passes through Florence, S.C., in 1994 on its way to Savannah River Site Weapons Complex near Aiken S.C. Nevada is protesting that the federal government quietly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to a former U.S. nuclear proving ground north of Las Vegas. Environmental activists say Utahns living near freeways and railroads may have been endangered by recent shipments of incorrectly labeled radioactive waste headed to Nevada.

They are calling on Gov. Gary Herbert to protest such action by the U.S. Department of Energy, and also to say whether Utah and its first responders were warned about the…