The Toxic Tycoon

May 13th, 2013 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment

Harold Simmons (Photo credit Dallas Morning News)

Andrews County, TX—Tucked away on the Texas/New Mexico border is a 15,000-acre low-level nuclear waste disposal site run by Waste Control Specialists (WCS), a subsidiary of Valhi, Inc. Only five miles away from the nearest city of Eunice, this site is to be a permanent disposal site for level A, B, and C radioactive waste. WCS sought two licenses that allowed them to accept a total of 60 million cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste from federal and state sources, including nuclear reactors, weapons programs, and hospitals, roughly enough to fill half of Cowboy’s Stadium. The citizens of Andrews County are thrilled to have the disposal site, which provides jobs and revenue to the small town. The town receives 5 percent of WCS’s gross receipts and received their first payment in August, about $620,000. Continue reading The Toxic Tycoon

United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

April 9th, 2012 | National Security News Service | | 20 comments

Monju Nuclear Power Plant

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the 1980s, a National Security News Service investigation reveals. These activities repeatedly violated U.S. laws regarding controls of sensitive nuclear materials that could be diverted to weapons programs in Japan. The NSNS investigation found that the United States has known about a secret nuclear weapons program in Japan since the 1960s, according to CIA reports. Continue reading United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

Read the NRC’s Safety Report On Mox

August 27th, 2010 | Environment | | Leave a comment

NRC clears a major hurdle for the Mox plant at the Savannah River Site:

http://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/idmws/doccontent.dll?library=PU_ADAMS%5EPBNTAD01&ID=102300302

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