By Elicia Sanchez July 12, 2020 – Andrews County News This year marks my 20th anniversary with Waste Control Specialists. When I started with WCS in May 2000, it was still a startup company. We took in our first shipment in 1997; the majority of all our shipments were hazardous materials for disposal. We had just one landfill and could store and treat hazardous and low level radioactive waste, but [...]

May 26, 2020 – Office of Nuclear Energy U.S. nuclear power plants generated a record 809 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2019. While our nation’s reactors create massive amounts of clean energy, they also produce spent or used nuclear fuel that is securely stored at 76 reactor and storage sites across the country. Despite being safely transported in the United States for more than half a century, many still [...]

Draft EIS is created for spent fuel storage application at WCS site in Andrews County By Sam Kaufman May 10, 2020 – Andrews County News A federal agency reviewing an application for spent fuel storage at Waste Control Specialists’ site provided a preliminary recommendation this week to issue the license and issued a draft environmental impact statement for public review and comment. Interim Storage Partners, a joint venture between WCS [...]