“WCS’ attention to testing, safety, economy and the storage and disposal techniques is very impressive.”
-WCS Tour Attendee
5 Common Myths About Transporting Spent Nuclear Fuel
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 [...]
NRC preliminarily recommends license
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 [...]
Several payments for projects that receive WCS funds are approved
By Sam Kaufman March 26, 2020 – Andrews County News At its past two Tuesday meetings, the commissioners court approved payments for several projects being funded by Waste Control Specialists’ tax money that goes to the county. On Tuesday, the court approved payments from the Legacy Fund to the school district for work on the new Andrews Food Pantry facility on school owned property in southwest Andrews across from Underwood [...]
NRC accepts license application for used nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility in West Texas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2018 Safety, security and environmental reviews of Interim Storage Partners’ application expected to be completed in August 2020 Andrews, Texas – Interim Storage Partners received confirmation from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that ISP’s revised license application for a consolidated interim storage facility provides sufficient information for the NRC to resume its detailed review for approval. ISP, a joint venture of Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists, [...]