High Level Nuclear Storage could Threaten New Mexico Oil Industry

摘要

Two applications for sites to serve as interim storage locations for high level nuclear waste in Andrews County and in Lea and Eddy counties, New Mexico, are drawing concern about the risks they pose. "There is as much nuclear radiation in one cask as was released in Chernobyl in 1986, and they want to eventually bring 20,000 casks here," said Tommy Taylor, director of oil and gas development for Fasken Oil and Ranch. "One cask has as much radiation as the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki."