Showing posts with label Waste Control Specialists. Show all posts
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Monday, June 9, 2008

State approves radioactive waste dump

From statesman.com, May 22, 2008...

The state environmental agency Wednesday approved a proposal to build a radioactive waste dump in West Texas.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality decided to issue a license for Waste Control Specialists to build a dump near the border with New Mexico for the disposal of radioactive waste related to Cold War-era uranium processing. Waste Control has applied for a second license, which it hopes to receive next year, for another radioactive waste dump on the same property to bury low-level radioactive material such as medical waste. Eventually, the company also could bury radioactive byproducts from uranium mining on the site.

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