The interstate compact commission overseeing shipments of low-level radioactive waste from Vermont to Texas will meet next week, according to the panel’s schedule.
The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission will convene April 15, either in-person in Austin, Texas or virtually. At deadline Thursday for Weapons Complex Morning Briefing the venue hadn’t yet been decided and no agenda had been set, according to the commission’s schedule.
The eight-member compact commission will meet again May 27. They last met in February.
The interstate compact allows Vermont to ship low-level radioactive waste — such as contaminated building materials, soils or other low-level waste from nuclear power plants — to Waste Control Specialists’s (WCS) compact waste facility in Andrews County, Texas.
Meanwhile, WCS is looking to get federal permission to expand their site’s waste inventory to include high-level waste, including spent nuclear fuel. Texas’s state legislature is currently deliberating on a bill that would ban storage of high-level waste in the state.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is also a vocal opponent of the proposed high-level repository, for which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is currently conducting an environmental review. The results of this review, a gateway to a federal license, won’t be done until the summer, the agency has said.
