The proposal to bring all of these fuel rods from nuclear power plants across the country to West Texas comes from our old nemesis, Waste Control Specialists. WCS promised the Texas Legislature that it was only interested in “low-level waste,” only to break those promises, teaming up with a French company to form “Interim Storage Partners (ISP) LLC” and attempting to corner the market on “interim” disposal of high-level waste.
DC Report
Published Oct 18, 2018
By Sarah Okeson Also published in The National Memo
Waste Control Specialists got state licenses in Texas in 2008 and 2009 to dispose of radioactive waste in a dump in Andrews County on the Texas-New Mexico border, adjacent to the giant URENCO USA nuclear enrichment facility at Eunice, N.M. Perry, then Texas governor, appointed the three commissioners of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality who approved the licenses.
The rate changes apply to waste shipped to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact facility, which is owned by the state and operated by Waste Control Specialists at its disposal complex in Andrews County.
