F vs Texas? Nuclear waste coming

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Waste dump license
Anybody think about the word "Temporary" ?

US Grants License for Temporary Nuclear Waste Dump in Texas​

Federal officials are giving the go-ahead for temporary storage of highly radioactive waste in west Texas.

 

[glenbo]

40 years is a long temporary.

 

[Brains]

Abbott apparently filed something to make that not happen, don't know the details.

 

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Even Nevada got around it - so can we? or let the show begin?
Looks like a special sting from feds

Texas officials vowed to fight a federal regulator’s decision to approve plans to allow thousands of tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste to be stored in oil fields in the state.

“Texas will not become America’s nuclear waste dumping ground,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Twitter Tuesday. Abbott last week signed into law legislation that attempts to block the project from moving forward.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license Monday to Orano CIS LLC and its joint venture partner, J.F. Lehman & Co.’s Waste Control Specialists LLC, to establish a repository in the heart of Texas’ Permian Basin oil fields for as many as 40,000 metric tons of radioactive waste.
Texas’ blowback underscored the federal government’s decades-long, futile hunt for a permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel. A political logjam over the issue has stranded tons of waste on site at several dozen power plants and other sites across the country including at two nuclear power plants in Texas.
The joint venture, known as Interim Storage Partners LLC, plans to have waste shipped by rail from around the country and sealed in concrete casks where it would be stored above ground at a site about 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) from Andrews, Texas, near the New Mexico border.
Local officials once embraced the Texas project as an economic boon, but it now faces stiff opposition from the local community, the state, and oil companies that fear a leak could taint a region that produces millions of barrels of oil a day. The waste can remain radioactive for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
“We have opposition to this project on every level,” said Karen Hadden, executive director of the Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition, an Austin, Texas-based environmental group fighting project. “We do not consider this fight over. We will continue to battle these dangerous plans.”
The Andrews County Commissioners’ Court, which functions as the county’s board of commissioners, had previously backed the plan as a means of diversifying the area’s fortunes from the boom and bust of oil cycles. But it reversed course earlier this year and voted unanimously to oppose the project.
“The concerns are what if there was a leak, if there an was an attack, if there was a transportation accident,” County Judge Charlie Falcon said in a phone interview. “It could affect our entire area and we are a very large oil producer in the state.”
Interim Storage Partners said the NRC’s approval was based upon a thorough multi-year review.
“The extensive analyses concluded that this facility’s commercial interim storage and transport operations satisfy all environmental, health, and safety requirements without negative impact to nearby residents or existing industries,” the company said in a statement.
Congress in 1987 designated a ridge in the Nevada desert about 90 miles north of Las Vegas called Yucca Mountain to be the nation’s repository. But decades of political opposition led by Nevada Democrat and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid kept the project from moving forward. In 2010, President Barack Obama scrapped the plan and the Biden administration opposes its use as well.
Instead, the administration plans to work with Congress and states to reach consent on storing nuclear waste, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told Congress earlier this year.
A similar nuclear waste storage project, proposed in New Mexico by Holtec International Corp., is also awaiting approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The agency said it expects to make a decision on that proposal in January 2022.

 

[Darqhelmet]

Oh hell no. Let’s park it in the middle of the oil field. You know the stuff we need now. I’m for nuclear power, but temp storage on the surface in west Texas isn’t okay. Other countries have figured this crap out. We need to get this moving.

 

[Grumps21]

Biden should ship this to his buddy Xi in China as payback for the WuFlu

 

[oldag]

Put it in a garage sale, cheap. In no time it will be heading south.

 

[Texasjack]

There is an amazing amount of radioactive material already stored around Texas because they can't find a real home for it. There's an old oil storage tank in El Paso storing many tons of radioactive slag from a steel plant. It's not a good way to store it, but until there's a real and regulated place, there it sits. Nobody wants it in their backyard, but the fact is that it's already there and it would be better to have a specifically designed facility for it.

 

[Vaquero]

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32°25'19.3"N 103°03'54.2"W · Eunice Municipal Schools, NM

Eunice Municipal Schools, NM

maps.app.goo.gl

Sigh

 

[toddnjoyce]

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32°25'19.3"N 103°03'54.2"W · Eunice Municipal Schools, NM

Eunice Municipal Schools, NM

maps.app.goo.gl

Sigh

Hell, I thought you were gonna bring up that little place just NE of Amarillo.

 

[Vaquero]

Hell, I thought you were gonna bring up that little place just NE of Amarillo.

That's collateral up there.

 

[toddnjoyce]

That's collateral up there.

I like your thinking.

 

[45tex]

TEXIT We will not comply.
Washington state is a disaster dump site. That stuff leaks everywhere

 

[SQLGeek]

As long as we have nuke power, we have to put it somewhere.

Of course they should actually have a plan for it instead of just parking it somewhere. But then that would take actual governance.

 

[45tex]

Keep it on the reactor site

 

[EZ-E]

Send it to California & New York ... they have turned their states into dumps anyway.

 

[RevolverGuy]

Even Nevada got around it - so can we? or let the show begin?
Looks like a special sting from feds

And 85% of Nevada is federal land, so, yeah, someone’s going out of their way to dump it here.

 

[Darkpriest667]

I like your thinking.

No Sir, Pantex is part of the NNSA (a DOE sub division) and I doubt very much they will tolerate any nuclear waste within 100 miles of the site. Pantex exists where it is for a reason, because if something very very bad happens the collateral damage of it won't be that bad.

The problem with YOUR thinking is storing the WASTE there is a TERRIBLE idea because the collateral damage is much greater.

1/3 of the water used for irrigation in the US comes from the aquifer underneath the panhandle. Not a good idea.

Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Tnhawk]

Waste dump license
Anybody think about the word "Temporary" ?

It's in a "temporary" place now, Why move it to another Temporary" place?
TX shouldn't become a "permanently temporary" location.

 

[vmax]

I wonder what state gets our nuclear waste that we produce here in TX?