Company vice president wants to clarify nature of the nuclear waste, risks involved By Elicia Sanchez November 28, 2018 – Midland Reporter-Telegram A recent article raised questions about the safe and secure rail transport of used nuclear fuel to the proposed Interim Storage Partners facility at Waste Control Specialists. As a longtime member of the local community, parent and therefore a stakeholder in this process, I would like to provide [...]

August 3, 2018 – The Verge Researchers sent a nuclear waste container on a 14,500-mile odyssey by truck, barge, cargo ship, and train in an effort to understand how well radioactive fuel would stand up to travel. That’s important to find out. Right now, “the US does not currently operate a large-scale transportation system for [spent nuclear fuel],” according to a report prepared for the Department of Energy in 2016. [...]

14 March 2018 – World Nuclear News Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists (WCS) plan to form a joint venture to license a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel at the WCS site in Andrews County, Texas. The joint venture will request that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission resume its review of the CISF licence application WCS originally submitted two years ago. In a statement yesterday, they said [...]