-
Recent Posts
- Plant leaking radioactive water into Lake Michigan
- Another radioactive animal story: Contaminated goldfish at Ohio nuke
- New problem at Fukushima: Groundwater leaking into contaminated plant and how to dispose of it
- And another victory: Duke suspends plans for two new reactors at South Carolina plant
- NRC blocks expansion of Texas nuke over ownership issue
Recent Comments
florida Accountant on WCS signs contract to accept l… R. Searfoss on About andreacalebs.bravesi… on Useful fact buried in puff pie… Ken on Useful fact buried in puff pie… riverboatbill on Lost radioactive rod found in… Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- February 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
Categories
- ABWRs
- Andrews County
- Anti-nuclear action
- Arkansas Nuclear
- Beaver Valley
- Browns Ferry
- Brunswick
- Byron
- Calvert Cliffs
- Canada
- Catawba
- Centraco
- China
- Clinton
- Co-location
- Coalition Against Nukes
- Columbia
- Comanche Peak
- Concrete
- Constellation Energy
- Construction delays
- Cook
- Coolant leak
- Crystal River
- Davis-Besse
- Department of Energy
- Diablo Canyon
- Dominion
- Dresden
- Drugs at work
- Drunk at work
- Duke Energy
- Earthquake
- EDF
- Electrical problems
- Energy alternatives
- Energy Solutions
- Entergy
- Europe
- Evacuation plans
- Event Reports
- Exelon
- Expansion
- Explosion
- Farley
- Fermi
- Finance
- Fire
- Fish kill
- Fitness for Duty
- FitzPatrick
- Flooding
- Food
- Fort Calhoun
- Fracking
- France
- Fuel enrichment
- Fukushima
- GE Mark I reactor
- Gentilly
- Grand Gulf
- Great Britain
- Halliburton
- Hanford
- Harris
- Hatch
- Heat
- Hope Creek
- Hurricane
- Hydrogen leak
- India
- Indian Point
- Japan
- Jellyfish
- Kalpakkam
- Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
- KEPCO
- Kewaunee
- Kuosheng (Guosheng)
- Labor
- Laguna Verde
- LaSalle
- License extension
- Limerick
- Loan guarantees
- Loss of offsite power
- Low-level radioactive waste
- Maine Yankee
- Marcoule
- McGuire
- Meltdown
- Mexico
- Millstone
- MIT
- Monticello
- NASA
- Never Mind the Unexpected…
- New forms of life
- Nine Mile Point
- NIRS
- North Anna
- NRG
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Nuclear Renaissance
- Nuclear waste
- Nuclear weapons
- Odd uncategorizable parable
- Onagawa
- Oyster Creek
- Pakistan
- Palisades
- Palo Verde
- Penly
- Perma-Fix
- Perry
- Pilgrim
- Plant closures
- Plant shutdowns
- Plutonium
- Point Beach
- Power reductions
- Prairie Island
- Preliminary Notification
- Progress Energy
- Quad Cities
- Radiation exposure
- Radiation leak
- Radioactive animals
- Radioactive material
- Radioactive waste
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Reactor problems
- Renewable energy
- reprocessing
- Research reactors
- Rick Perry
- River Bend
- Robinson
- Russia
- Saint Lucie
- Salem
- San Antonio
- San Onofre
- SCANA
- Seabrook
- Security
- Sequoyah
- Sirens
- Sleeping at work
- Solar power
- South Korea
- South Texas Project
- Southern California Edison
- Southern Co.
- spacecraft
- Spain
- Spent fuel pool
- St. Lucie
- Steel
- Summer nuclear plant
- Surry
- Susquehanna
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- TEPCO
- Transportation
- tritium
- Tsunami
- Tsuruga
- Turkey Point
- Typhoon
- Uncategorized
- University of Texas
- Vermont Yankee
- Vogtle
- Waste Control Specialists
- Water
- Waterford
- Watts Barr
- Wildfire
- Wolf Creek
- Worker exposure
- Worker fatality
- Worker injury
Meta
Category Archives: Waste Control Specialists
WCS receives TCEQ approval to begin shipping low level radioactive waste to West Texas
On Wednesday of this week, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) sent a letter to Waste Control Specialists (WCS) giving them approval to begin shipping low level radioactive waste to their dump site in Andrews County in West Texas. … Continue reading
Event Report: Radioactive source lost in shipment in Texas; Questions raised in state that is about to see significant increase in rad waste shipments when West Texas waste dump opens
The Texas Department of Health reported to the NRC this morning that a 350 millicurie source containing Americium-241 and Beryllium has apparently been lost in shipping. Probe Technology Services of Fort Worth shipped the source to Houston on March 14. Prior … Continue reading
WCS signs contract to accept low-level nuclear waste from 17 nuclear power plants
Waste Control Specialists (WCS) announced today that it has signed a contract with Utilities Service Alliance (USA) to accept Class A, B and C low-level radioactive waste at WCS’ Andrews County dump in West Texas. USA represents 15 utilities operating … Continue reading
