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Towns see gold in storing nuclear waste

By Josh Siegel
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Towns see gold in storing nuclear waste

If there ever was a place meant to store the nation’s commercial nuclear waste, at least temporarily, it’s southeastern New Mexico, some local residents say.

John Heaton, a 78-year-old retiree from Carlsbad, belongs to the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, a coalition of volunteers that owns land in Lea County it intends to sell to a company proposing to build an underground storage site to temporarily house waste from the nation’s 99 nuclear reactors.

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