West Texas is on track to get even more nuclear waste thanks to the federal government
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Waste Control Specialists has been disposing of the nation’s low-level nuclear waste including tools, building materials and protective clothing exposed to radioactivity for a decade at a hazardous waste facility in Andrews County, on the New Mexico border. (Credit: Eli Hartman for The Texas Tribune)
To get rid of eight gallons of water, the U.S. Department of Energy spent $100,000.
It’s little more than half a tank of gasoline in a midsize car, but the radioactive shipment from South Carolina to a West Texas company last fall marked one change that could lead to more nuclear waste traveling to Texas waste that, until recently, was considered too dangerous to be disposed of.
have to do it in a way that gets the buy-in from the communities or we will be in the same place that we were with yucca mountain which is a site will never get built. reporter: so instead of one nuclear waste site out in the middle of the nevada desert, there are dozens and dozens of them just like this scattered across the country. is it safe? yes, for now. but bob alvarez, an anti-nuclear activist and former senior policy advisor at the department of energy, says don t wait too long. they ve become major radioactive waste management operations and are not being treated as such. and we have to come to terms with that and have a national policy to have this stuff safely stored and not in so-called interim jerry-rigged storage systems. reporter: that s the real problem. we still have the waste. it isn t going anywhere, just sitting. what was temporary, now for years, waiting for yucca mountain to open or waiting for
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