Texas officials vowed to fight a federal regulator’s decision to approve plans to allow thousands of tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste to be stored in oil fields in the state.“Texas will not become America’s nuclear waste dumping ground,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Twitter Tuesday. Abbott last week signed into law legislation thatattempts to block the project from moving forward.The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license Monday to Orano CIS LLC and its joint venture partner, J.F. Lehman & Co.’s Waste Control Specialists LLC, to establish a repositoryin the heart of Texas’ Permian Basin oil fields for as many as 40,000 metric tons of radioactive waste.
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