State lawmakers again try to ban most dangerous nuclear waste as feds consider allowing it at West Texas site

• The Texas Tribune - State lawmakers again try to ban most dangerous nuclear waste as feds consider allowing it at West Texas site - By Erin Douglas

NRC Shreds New Mexico's Court Argument on Commercial Interim Storage

• Exchange Monitor - NRC Shreds New Mexico's Court Argument on Commercial Interim Storage

NRC: Court lacks authority in New Mexico lawsuit against nuclear waste site

• Carlsbad Current-Argus - NRC: Court lacks authority in New Mexico lawsuit against nuclear waste site - Adrian Hedden

NO CONSENT! Texans reject high-level radioactive waste

Image courtesy of NoNuclearWasteAqui.orgAs NRC is poised to rubber-stamp the construction and operating license for Interim Storage Partners' irradiated nuclear fuel interim storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, on the New Mexico border, Texans continue to clearly express their non-consent for this environmentally unjust scheme. Dump opponents, Sustainable Energy & Economic Development (SEED) Coalition and Public Citizen, have tentatively scheduled a masked, socially distanced press conference for 10:30am CT, Wednesday, August 25th, on the south side of the Texas State Capitol. This despite the worsening pandemic emergency, flooding at the State Capitol, and arrest warrants for Democratic Texas state legislators (63 of whom also oppose the dump). A banner (pictured), and inflatable mock nuclear waste container, will be displayed.

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"WE DON'T WANT IT!" TX county rejects nuclear fuel dump

Photo take at Feb. 2017 US NRC environmental scoping phase public comment meeting in Andrews, TX, re: WCS CISF application. Used with permission from Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition, Austin, TX.As tweeted by Protect the Basin, the Andrews County, Texas Commissioner's Court "requests that the NRC [U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission] immediately cease the licensing of interim storage of spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County and that it faithfully observes the right of the people of Andrews County and the State of TX to approve or reject a national interim SNF [spent nuclear fuel] storage facility." The Commissioner's Court resolution goes on to state "the Andrews County Judge and Commissioners Court hereby reject the proposed siting of SNF waste in Andrews County, Texas." The unanimous resolution came in response to a groundswell of local public opposition to the proposed high-level radioactive waste dump. Consent-based siting is clearly lacking.

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