Posted on · The bill would direct the Energy Department to continue a licensing process for Yucca Mountain while also moving forward with a separate plan for a temporary storage site in New Mexico or Texas
Posted on · Perry said during his confirmation hearing in January that he’s been open to Texas helping solve the waste problem.
Posted on · The lack of an answer to the nuclear waste problem frustrated Rick Perry - now Energy Secretary - when he was governor.
Posted on · Along the Texas coast, game wardens will now carry radiation detectors.
Posted on · The country has been trying to figure out for decades what to do with the high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The operators of a nuclear waste dump in West Texas have told federal officials they'd be happy to take it.