NRC Gives its Blessing to Interim Storage in Texas

As reported by ExchangeMonitor. However, the article is behind a paywall and inaceessible without a subscription.

Media release by Ian Zabarte, Secretary, Native Community Action Council, re: NRC's licensing of ISP's CISF in TX

See the NCAC press release, here.

NRC LICENSES ISP: Opponents redouble resistance to CISF

Texans protest against high-level radioactive waste dumping in the Lone Star State at its Capitol earlier this month.On September 13, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced it had approved licensing for Interim Storage Partners' (ISP) controversial consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County, West Texas, on the New Mexico border. The CISF would "temporarily store" up to 40,000 metric tons of highly radioactive waste, from atomic reactors across the U.S. But without a permanent geologic repository in sight for decades, "interim" risks becoming permanent surface storage, a parking lot dump. The long expected NRC approval notwithstanding, a new Texas law, and environmental coalition federal court challenges, including ours, will hopefully block ISP. See our press release, and widespread media coverage. We have opposed this dump since it was first proposed, and won't stop now!

Texas pushing back against high levels of nuclear waste

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license for the construction and operation of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Andrews.

As reported by NewsWest9.

A private company got federal approval to store nuclear waste in Texas. The state is fighting back.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of the planned facility opens a new front in a decades-long battle to find a home for the country’s nuclear waste

As reported by the Washington Post.