Company storing radioactive waste in Denton asks court for more time
State health officials filed court documents this week opposing any further delay in a long-running case against a Utah company storing low-level radioactive waste in Denton.
Patience appears to have run out at the Texas Department of State Health Services, which is scheduled to bring its case against U.S. Radiopharmaceuticals to an administrative law judge on Oct. 8. The company faces a $2.2 million fine for failing to clean up the waste by a July 16 deadline.
Earlier this year, crews stopped cleaning up the waste and contaminated equipment that have been stored here for more than a decade. A real estate group recently foreclosed on USR’s two Denton properties, one on Shady Oaks Drive and the other on Jim Christal Road, and submitted a decommissioning plan to the state. But crews stopped working after they found more contaminated material than anticipated, and a dispute erupted with USR over back taxes owed on the properties.
State health officials have said the property is secure and poses no immediate threat to public health and safety.
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(Denton Record-Chronicle)