Nuclear waste could be headed to West Texas under house bill
WASHINGTON - Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the country could be headed to West Texas under legislation passed by the House today.
The legislation, which passed 340 to 72, directs Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to find interim storage sites for the growing stockpile of waste at the nation's nuclear power plants, while also restarting the licensing process for a controversial permanent storage facility in Nevada, at the Yucca Mountain site.
Finding communities willing to take the radioactive waste has proven hugely difficult in the past, but one option available to Perry would be an existing hazardous waste site in Andrews County in West Texas, where Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists is proposing to store spent nuclear fuel until a permanent storage facility is completed.
The legislation, which was introduced last year by Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., has passed in similar form in past Congresses but has so far failed to win support in the Senate. At issue are concerns from communities surrounding potential storage sites, as well as criticism from environmentalists who argue transporting the waste to multiple sites is simply too dangerous.
Read more: https://www.mrt.com/business/energy/article/Nuclear-waste-could-be-headed-to-West-Texas-under-12901612.php
(Midland Reporter Telegram)
= new reply since forum marked as read
There must be another fighter for human rights against Toxic dumping, somewhere in this country!
Progressive Sen Wellstone, Texas poor communities need you again..
Texas deserves all the waste we can dump there.
You made it, you keep it in your neighborhoods.
Start with Vermont.
Thanks for nothing bernie & jane.
Fk off.
Keep your poison waste in your own State.
