Texas Company: We Want Nation's Radioactive Waste

Submitted 6 months ago by Toby Shuster
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From San Francisco Chronicle --Waste Control Specialists LLC, based in Dallas, received a license this year from state regulators to accept commercial waste from Texas, Vermont and from U.S. Department of Energy sites. But it also wants to dispose commercial waste from other states at the site near the New Mexico line.

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