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In New Mexico, two Bills to block the storage of high level nuclear waste

Efforts by New Mexico lawmakers to block the storage of high-level nuclear
waste in the state built momentum this week as two bills in the House and
Senate advanced in legislative committees.

Senate Bill 54 and House Bill
127 contain identical language that would prohibit State agencies from
issuing permits for high-level nuclear waste storage facilities, introduced
in direct opposition to the project proposed by Holtec International in
southeast New Mexico near Carlsbad and Hobbs. The Holtec project would see
about 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods from generator sites
across the U.S. shipped via rail to the location on about 1,000 acres in a
remote area by the Eddy-Lea county line.

 Carlsbad Current-Argus 5th Feb 2022

https://eu.currentargus.com/story/news/local/2022/02/05/new-mexico-nuclear-waste-storage-ban-gains-steam-holtec-project-carlsbad-hobbs/9302663002/

February 7, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK, wastes