Waste Control Specialists

A hazardous waste disposal company in Andrews County wants to handle more dangerous levels of nuclear waste. Federal agencies are pondering new rules that…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has come out against two rival plans to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to sites on the…

Early last year, a Texas-based company revived its efforts to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel from the country's power plants in Andrews County. The…

Earlier this month, the House of Congress passed a bill to move forward on plans for building out the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada. Some legislators…

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to block the merger between Dallas’ Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions. Judge Sue L. Robinson’s decision…

The future of a proposal to bring the some of the country’s used nuclear fuel to West Texas hangs in the balance now, after the company spearheading the…

[gallery ids="29701,29699,29700,29698"] Nuclear Waste -- a problem that’s been looming over the country for several decades. Unable to find a permanent…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the early stages of an environmental review for Waste Control Specialists’ application to expand its low-level…

The West Texas nuclear waste site in Andrews County near the New Mexico border is being sold to an international nuclear waste processing and disposal…

Texas’ only radioactive waste dump wants to open its gates to tens of thousands of metric tons of spent nuclear reactor fuel now scattered across the…