Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to force the Nuclear Regulatory Committee to cast an up- or- down vote on the Yucca Mountain plan. It also seeks to prevent the federal Department of Energy from spending billions of dollars in fees collected from utilities on efforts to find another disposal site before such a vote. The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. Become one.“For decades, the federal government has ignored our growing problem of nuclear waste,” Paxton said in a statement Wednesday. We do not intend to sit quietly anymore.”Paxton filed the lawsuit just two weeks after former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was sworn in as the agency’s leader.
Good news for doomsday preppers, abandoned nuclear missile silo near Roswell, New Mexico, is for sale. And it comes as Texas’ only radioactive waste site — run by Waste Control Specialists in Andrews County — is asking the NRC to let it temporarily store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. About 7. 8,0. 00 metric tons of spent uranium rods are stored at operating or closed reactor sites throughout the country, with 2,6. Texas. Those sites, mostly meant to be temporary, are filling up. Though the nuclear energy industry insists that temporary waste disposal — either in pools or sealed in dry casks of metal or concrete — is safe and environmentally sound, it has long agreed that sealing the waste in geologic formations deep underground boosts protection against terrorist attacks and natural disasters, such as the earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2. For more than 2. 0 years, Washington saw Yucca Mountain as the solution, and the federal government spent tens of millions of dollars preparing it to accept the waste. But Nevada’s congressional delegation — led by now- retired U. S. Harry Reid, a Democrat — has thwarted the project. And, facing significant political pressure, President Barack Obama’s administration abandoned the Yucca Mountain plans by failing to fund an NRC review. Become one. Since 1. Texans. With interest, Texans have contributed $1. Department of Energy. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is to be a deep geological repository storage facility. A 2. 01. 3 federal appeals court ruling halted the collections, and the fund now has an unspent balance of $4. Paxton’s lawsuit, which opens with a comment from Perry during his confirmation hearing as energy secretary: “My hope of this committee and administration is that we, finally after 3. Since 2. 01. 2, Waste Control Specialists, a company formerly owned by the late Dallas billionaire and Republican donor Harold Simmons, has disposed of contaminated tools, building materials and protective clothing, among other items, from shuttered reactors and hospitals. That site in Andrews County grew rapidly during Perry’s final years in office. Over the objection of environmental groups, the company is seeking a license to temporarily store spent reactor fuel — high- level nuclear waste. If Paxton’s suit does not force President Donald Trump’s administration to restart the Yucca Mountain plans, some observers say the federal government might more closely eye the Andrews County site — a move that would require Congress to change that 1. Yucca Mountain as the nation’s repository. Asked whether Paxton’s lawsuit had anything to do with Waste Control Specialists’ expansion plans, Kayleigh Lovvorn, his spokeswoman, said her office had no comment. The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. Become one. Chuck Mc. Donald, a spokesman for Waste Control Specialists, said the company had not yet read the lawsuit, “therefore, we don’t know if it will have an impact on our project or not.”But he added: “WCS has always been supportive of a permanent repository, and we believe a consolidated interim storage facility is needed as part of an integrated waste management system in the U. S.”Karen Hadden, executive director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, a group fighting the Andrews County site’s expansion, agreed with Paxton’s criticism of the Yucca Mountain process — “a waste of money,” she said. But Hadden worries that the lawsuit could force the government to permit a site ill- equipped to protect public health and safety.“It’s really important that we get a permanent repository in place that will isolate this waste so we don’t have cancer effects or deaths from contamination today or into the future,” Hadden said. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here. Meet Paige: Our new Facebook Messenger bot helps you keep track of the 8. Legislature. Subscribe by messaging HELLO to m.
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