(The day before, NRC had also announced the resumption of the Waste Control Specialists/Interim Storage Partners licensing proceeding for a 40,000 metric ton commercial irradiated nuclear fuel centralized interim storage facility, or CISF.
Just across the state border, an Orano-Waste Control Specialists partnership wants to store up to 40,000 metric tons of the radioactive waste in West Texas.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this month has resumed its safety and environmental reviews of an application by Interim Storage Partners to construct and operate a consolidated spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Andrews County, Texas.
