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The sale of the plant by Entergy to Holtec has  been controversial. State and federal leaders and environmental groups had expressed concern that money would run out before the 240-acre site was fully cleaned.   The shuttering of the plant will cost hundreds of local jobs and impact the local property tax base.  Plus it remains unclear when and how nuclear detritus would be permanently removed from the site. New Jersey-based Holtec wants to build an interim underground repository in the New Mexico desert for the 83,000 metric tons of nuclear waste stored at power plants across the U.S. But...

Michael Benanav / Searchlight New Mexico and is republished here by permission. For most New Mexico businesses, the arrival of COVID-19 wreaked havoc, caused shutdowns or threatened doom. But for one enterprise — potentially one of the world’s largest nuclear waste sites — the pandemic offered an unusual opportunity. A long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in the southeastern New Mexico desert was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic, according to New Mexico’s congressional delegation, environmentalists and other opponents. Typically, project foes would have ...

Nuclear Rubberstamping Commission rushes to approve Holtec’s New Mexico nuclear waste plan Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has categorically denounced the Holtec project and all other proposals to store nuclear waste in the area. there are “no plans of ever removing” the waste. “We see no reason,” they said, “to rush a decision that affects generations of New Mexicans during a pandemic on behalf of an international, for-profit corporation.” New Mexico’s nuclear rush,  A massive nuclear waste site near Carlsbad is seemingly on a fast track. Can the company behind it be t...