Barton Springs, whose cool, natural waters have created summer memories for generations in Austin, Texas, has become an important refuge during the current heat wave.
BERWICK A woman was taken to the hospital after a crash Thursday that left a Jeep on its roof and jammed up traffic for an hour. Police say Patricia Bobeck, 71, of Drums was driving the Jeep south on Market Street when she collided with a Honda Civic, driven by Patricia Capece, 67, of 1110 4th Ave. in Berwick. Capece was traveling west on Second Street when the Jeep crossed
“It’s not cotton candy”
Meanwhile, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon consider new regulations that would allow WCS and other commercial sites to accept a higher level of nuclear waste than Texas currently allows.
The WCS facility is permitted to accept Class A, B, and C nuclear waste categories that fall below high-level material like spent nuclear fuel. But certain material, much of it generated by the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, falls into what experts call a gray area between the lower-level categories and spent nuclear fuel. It has an equally ambiguous name: “Greater than Class C.”
“These are some of the most dangerous materials in the world,” “It’s not cotton candy.”
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.
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.