Sierra Club Lawsuit Challenges Approval Of Texas Llrw Repository

摘要

Worried about windblown radioactive debris, potential traffic accidents, and leakage into aquifers, the Sierra Club last week filed a lawsuit to overturn regulatory approval a radioactive waste repository in Andrews County near the Texas-New Mexico border.rnThe lawsuit in a Texas district court challenges last May's decision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to give Waste Control Specialists LLC a disposal license to permanently house the low-level radioactive waste.