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Texas Moves Toward Accepting Nuclear Waste

HeadlineJan 05, 2011

A state commission in Texas has approved new rules that would allow 36 other states to ship low-level radioactive waste to a private storage site owned by a prominent Republican fundraiser in western Texas. Many environmental groups oppose the project because part of the nuclear waste dump may be on top of the massive Ogallala Aquifer that provides drinking water to nearly two million people and supplies water for more than a quarter of the country’s irrigated land.

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