NM reaches uranium waste agreement
Posted at: 10/26/2009 1:00 PM
| Updated at: 10/26/2009 1:16 PM
By: The Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico officials and International Isotopes Inc. have reached an agreement that will limit the amount of waste that can be stored at the company’s planned uranium deconversion plant in southeastern New Mexico.
The company plans to build a plant near Hobbs that would convert depleted uranium into certain types of acid and gas that could be used for industrial manufacturing applications.
Uranium waste would be disposed of at a licensed facility outside New Mexico.
Environment Secretary Ron Curry says the agreement will protect the environment and area residents while allowing the company to operate in the state.
The agreement limits onsite storage of uranium at the plant to 2.2 million kilograms.
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