Environmental Protection Online, Occupational Health & Safety
July 2, 2019
Interim Storage Partners is a joint venture of Waste Control Specialists and Orano USA. It has applied for a license to build and operate a dry cask storage site for commercial spent nuclear fuel adjacent to the WCS low-level waste disposal facility in Andrews County.
If the application submitted by Waste Control Specialists is approved, potentially deadly used fuel from nuclear reactors across the U.S. could soon be traveling through urban communities, including DFW, by rail.