Nuclear Waste Storage Sites New Mexico

Has won a round in its fight to open a nuclear waste storage facility but the.

Nuclear fusion history nuclear power house. The nuclear regulatory commission is. New mexico may become temporary storage site for nuclear waste a private company wants to store high level nuclear waste in a rural corner of new mexico. In a remote stretch.

Lujan grisham is allied with new mexicos democratic delegates some tribes and dozens of activist groups in opposing the storage site which would hold as much as 173000 metric tons of high level radioactive waste mainly from nuclear reactors. Ap the first load of nuclear waste arrives in this march 26 1999 file photo at the waste isolation pilot plant site in carlsbad nm from los alamos national laboratory. She pointed to a similar facility proposed by waste control specialists wcs just across the texas new mexico state line in andrews texas.

Initial plans call for canisters holding more than 8000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel at new mexico site. Morenuclear waste bill advances to house could push forward storage site in new mexico. A proposed interim storage facility in a remote area of new mexico that has been seen as a possible destination to take commercial nuclear waste from sites such as the san onofre nuclear.

Austin suggested new mexico capitalize on the opportunity instead of letting it go to the lone star state.