Inormation from Public Citizen:

Do you think Texas should be a storage site for cancer causing radioactive waste from all over the country?

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working to develop a process that will allow communities to decide if they want to take on the risk of hosting high-level radioactive waste storage or disposal.

But a company called Waste Control Specialists isn’t waiting for that process. It has already applied for a permit to stockpile high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants in other states at its facility here in Texas.

You have until midnight tonight to let the DOE know that you don’t want the nation’s deadly nuclear waste stored in Texas.

The state has warned that nuclear waste could be a target for terrorists. And once Texas is selected as a storage location, it could become a permanent disposal site.

It’s not just residents of Andrews County, where the waste would be stored, who would be impacted.

Thousands of trains carrying highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants would pass through Texas communities, including major cities. Train derailments and other accidents are much too common.

Imagine a train wreck that also releases radioactive contamination!

Tell the DOE that you don’t consent to accept the risks that would come with shipping high-level nuclear waste to Texas for storage.

Thank you for helping to keep our communities safe.

Sincerely,

Tom “Smitty” Smith
Public Citizen’s Texas Office

Our comment was submitted to the DOE on August 1:  The members of the Sierra Club Coastal Bend Group strongly oppose the stockpiling of any nuclear waste in Texas, even on a temporary basis, and we oppose the permit application made by Waste Control Specialists to stockpile nuclear waste from other states in the state of Texas.