Daily News Clips: WCS & ISP

Dismantling nuclear plants is a gold mine for some, but at what risk to you?

USA Today
June 19, 2019

Like Holtec, NorthStar’s partners, Waste Control Specialists, have plans to build a storage site out West. Theirs will be in Texas, not far from the site where Holtec has decided to build.

Investors see huge profits from old nuclear plants, but it could cost taxpayers

Poughkeepsie Journal
June 19, 2019

In January 2018 Lehman bought Waste Control Specialists, which owns radioactive waste disposal sites in Texas. The deals allow Lehman’s companies to save money at every step of decommissioning, said State, who is CEO of both NorthStar and Waste Control Specialists.

DOE’s Latest Effort to Expedite Cleanup of Cold War Sites Will Shave Cleanup Costs—and Could Hit Commercial Nuclear Utilities in the Wallet

JD Supra
June 17, 2019

Close on the heels of issuing the Rule, the DOE announced its first application of the Rule: a plan to transfer some 10,000 gallons of HLW from the Savannah River Site to commercial disposal sites operated by Waste Control Specialists LLC (Texas), or EnergySolutions Inc. (Utah).

Hanford could be resting place for vessel’s nuclear reactors

Associated Press
June 16, 2019

Possible disposal facilities include the US Ecology disposal site on leased land in central Hanford; the Energy Solutions disposal site in Utah; the Waste Control Specialists disposal site in Texas; or the Department of Energy Savannah River Site in South Carolina.