Texas regulators OK expanding nuclear waste site

By Betsy Blaney

Published August 20, 2014 9:16pm ET

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Texas regulators OK expanding nuclear waste site — FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, crews from Waste Control Specialists load the first of two containers with low-level radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, into a reinforced 8-inch-thick concrete container at the 90-acre federal dump where it will remain forever, near Andrews, Texas. Regulators have approved allowing depleted uranium to be buried at a West Texas nuclear waste dump site. (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney, File) | Betsy Blaney

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Depleted uranium from federal energy facilities can be buried at a nuclear-waste dumping site in West Texas, state regulators decided Wednesday.

The 3-0 vote by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality also will triple the Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists facility’s capacity of storing low-level radioactive waste from the majority of U.S. states — going from 2.3 million cubic feet to 9 million cubic feet.

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