EnergySolutions in November 2015 signed a definitive agreement to acquire WCS, operator of a low-level radioactive and hazardous waste processing, treatment, storage and disposal facility in Andrews County, Texas, for $270 million in cash and $20 million in stock. EnergySolutions also agreed to assume some $77 million of debt as well as all financial assurance obligations related to the WCS business in a deal WCS president Rod Baltzer described at the time as a "win-win" for both companies. World-nuclear-news.org

Perry addressed the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development on 20 June and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development the following day, to present the Department of Energy's (DOE's) proposed 2018 budget. In his testimony to both committees, he said the need to address nuclear waste management was a "moral" obligation. "For too many years, the prior administration has literally kicked the can down the road on nuclear waste," he said. World-nuclear-news.org

Critics of SCE&G’s over-budget and behind-schedule nuclear expansion project are asking state regulators to stop the utility from spending more money to build two atomic reactors – and they want the power company to pay customers back for cost overruns. Thestate.com

Has Iran laid the groundwork to develop nuclear weapons on a moment's notice? Thehill.com