A state health official has ordered U.S. Radiopharmaceuticals to clean up the nuclear waste it has been storing in Denton for a decade.
The July 16 order from the Texas Department of State Health Services follows years of bureaucratic wrangling between the state and USR. But the order is significant because it starts the clock.
USR has until August 2019 to decommission its plants on Shady Oaks Drive and on Jim Christal Road. The company has two opportunities to stop the clock — one with the state agency and another in district court. Both, however, are akin to a long-shot Hail Mary pass. The manufacturing plants have been closed since 2009.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe – Denton Record-Chronicle – June 27, 2018.
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