{"id":127664,"date":"2021-09-14T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/u-s-regulators-approve-texas-nuclear-dump-despite-opposition"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T22:23:08","slug":"u-s-regulators-approve-texas-nuclear-dump-despite-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/u-s-regulators-approve-texas-nuclear-dump-despite-opposition","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Regulators Approve Texas Nuclear Dump Despite Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-regulators-approve-texas-nuclear-dump-despite-opposition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar nuclear waste storage project, proposed in New Mexico by Holtec International Corp., is also awaiting approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The agency said it expects to make a decision on that proposal in January 2022.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Texas officials vowed to fight a federal regulator\u2019s decision to approve plans to allow thousands of tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste to be stored in oil fields in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A similar nuclear waste storage project, proposed in New Mexico by Holtec International Corp., is also awaiting approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The agency said it expects to make a decision on that proposal in January 2022. Texas officials vowed to fight a federal regulator\u2019s decision to approve plans to allow thousands of tons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}