Yesterday Laray Polk wrote an item for us about Harold Simmons’ Waste Control Specialists and that company’s efforts to bury as much nuclear waste as it can in West Texas. The CEO of Waste Control ...

At a site in Andrews, Texas, about half an hour from the state’s western border to New Mexico, nuclear waste from across the country is stored ahead of its final disposal without a federal license.

Waste Control Specialists’ operation employs 110 people and pumps around $1 million annually into Andrews County’s coffers through a 5% fee on all disposal activities — an amount that would likely ...

A nuclear laboratory in South Carolina planned to send waste to a facility in West Texas along the border with New Mexico under a change in how the federal government classifies nuclear waste. The U.S ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A company that recently received approval to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from two states in rural west Texas wants permission to dump such material from across the ...

The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas, where radioactive and hazardous waste is stored, in 2021. (Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman For The Texas Tribune) ...

The Energy Department has decided to use a commercial nuclear waste dump while it struggles to reopen its underground storage site after two radiation leaks and a fire since February. Energy and ...

correctionA previous version of this article misstated the name of the landfill company involved. It is Waste Control Specialists, not Waste Storage Specialists. The article has been corrected. A ...

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Elemental mercury will be stored at a facility in West Texas, after the U.S. Department of Energy selected a nuclear waste disposal company to hold the chemical until technology is developed to treat ...

Waste Control Specialists has been disposing of the nation’s low-level nuclear waste — including tools, building materials and protective clothing exposed to radioactivity — for a decade at a ...

To get rid of eight gallons of water, the U.S. Department of Energy spent $100,000. It’s little more than half a tank of gasoline in a midsize car, but the radioactive shipment from South Carolina to ...