Waste Control Specialists – Radioactive Waste Dump

Issues with Radioactive Waste Legislation

• Why we oppose SB 1504
  Testimony of Tom “Smitty” Smith, April 4, 2011

Stop Texas from Becoming the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dump!

• Nuclear Waste From as Many as 36 States May Rumble Down Texas Highways if Texas Nuclear Waste Importation Plan Is Approved 12/23/10

• Texans Say No to Importing Radioactive Waste From Around the Country; Comments Accepted Until Dec. 26th 12/10/10

• Read the proposed radioactive import rule here.
• Transportation of Radioactive Material
  NRC Reactor Training Center Manual
• Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission Action Letter
• Governor Ann Richards says the Compact would limit waste coming to Texas April 19, 1993

Texas is at risk of becoming the nation’s radioactive dumping ground. Governor Perry knew that Texans don’t want to be dumped on, and kept this issue out of the spotlight during election season. Now that the elections are over and the winter holiday season is underway, the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission is rushing to approve rules that would open Andrews County in West Texas up to radioactive waste from around the country.

Loopholes abound when it comes to laws regarding radioactive waste. While excluding radioactive waste from international sources, the proposed rule doesn’t require processors to document the origin of waste that they handle. International radioactive waste could get re-labeled as Tennessee waste if it was processed there. Texas could become the international radioactive waste dumping ground as well.

Learn more and take action now…

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Andrews County is poised to become the nation’s largest and perhaps one of the most deadly radioactive and hazardous waste dumps, mainly for nuclear power and weapons waste.

• Mike Ford’s Additions to the Compact Commission Draft Rule

Factsheets & Reports:

• The Repository and the Risk – Andrews County Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
  Public Citizen report, April 2011, by Ali Rawaf
• Chart of Anticipated Radioactive Waste Volume and Curies

• Comments Made Before Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission
  • SEED Coalition Comments 4/13/10
  • IEER Memo to SEED Coalition on LLRW 4/13/10
  • Fairewinds Associates Inc. Comments 4/13/10
  • Sierra Club – Lone Star Chapter Comments 3/16/10
  • Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) Comments 4/13/10
  • NIRS U.S. Commercial "Low-Level" Radioactive Waste Disposal Sites Fact Sheet April, 2009
  • What’s Wrong with the Texas Compact Commission Import Rule? Factsheet
• Transportation of Radioactive Material
  NRC Reactor Training Center Manual
• Questions Rep. Lon Burnam asked of the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission
• SEED Comments on Import-Export Rule 1/21/10
• Dr. Arjun Makhijani – Nuclear Expert Memo 1/15/10
• NIRS: US Low-Level Radioactive Waste Sites 4/29/09
• Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission Stakeholders Draft Rule 12/10/09
• "Low-Level" Radioactive Waste Is Not Low Risk April 2009
• United States Commercial "Low-Level" Radioactive Waste Disposal Sites Fact Sheet April 2009
• Radioactive Waste Compacts Map