May 4, 2021      5:18 PM
Showdown over nuclear waste delayed on Texas House floor
Late in the day, House members were being pulled off the floor by those lobbying hard on the bill trying to flip votes while the bill itself had been postponed to the end of the day’s agenda. The bill was again postponed before the House gaveled out
The Texas House
later today is set to debate what some consider nuclear waste policy with
national implications.
House
Bill 2692 by Rep. Brooks
Landgraf, R-Odessa, would essentially put a stop to a controversial plan to
use a site in Andrews County to store the most dangerous level of radioactive
waste. That type of waste is made up of spent fuel rods from nuclear power
plants. That waste is said to stay dangerously radioactive for hundreds of thousands
of years.
By Scott Braddock
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