Will Taiwan's Nuclear Waste Come To Texas ???

Like most countries Taiwan wants to get rid of its nuclear waste, including spent fuel:

Taiwanese officials want to ship the island's nuclear waste offshore as spent fuel accumulates at two older power plants, but the plan faces opposition from activists and the legislature, putting it on hold.

The two oldest of Taiwan’s three nuclear power plants are running out of space for spent fuel. The build-up of waste prompted government-run Taiwan Power Company to call in February for bids from companies overseas capable of removing the fuel, neutralizing radioactive material and helping to dispose what's left. Firms in France, Japan, Russia and Britain are technically able to do the work, though none had tendered bids.

http://www.voanews.com/content/opposition-mounts-as-taiwan-plans-to-ship-nuclear-waste-offshore/2759529.html

Undoubtedly, one of the firms "technically able to do the work" is the French company Areva, the world's largest nuclear company.

Waste Control Specialists (WCS) is planning to file in 2016 an application with the NRC to store spent nuclear fuel at its West Texas facility in Andrews County. Allegedly, their intent is to store spent fuel only from US reactors:

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/09/west-texas-site-wants-nations-spent-nuclear-fuel/

Perhaps coincidentally, WCS has hired Areva to prepare the license application and environmental assessment report for their new spent fuel facility:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/static.texastribune.org/media/documents/WCS_Notice_to_NRC.pdf

If you'll recall, this Texas storage facility began operation under the pretext that it would store low level wastes from two states, Texas and Vermont. It now accepts waste from numerous other sources under a vastly expanded permit:

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/08/20/texas-nuclear-waste-dump-poised-get-wiggle-room/

Is it too much of a stretch of the imagination to suggest that some day the site also may accept spent fuel from outside the US, including from Taiwan? If the right amount of money were involved, such a development might even be inevitable.

Especially troubling in this whole situation is the attitude of the nuclear "professionals" overseeing the project, one of whom has said that the biggest safety challenge would be educating the public. In reality the public's distrust of federal and state agencies and corporations in this matter is a healthy thing, not a "safety challenge".

Once this spent fuel is placed in Texas (from whatever sources), it may NEVER leave. And although the facility will be designed for an initial 40-year lifespan, the waste will be radioactive far beyond the probable lifespan of the human race. It will require perpetual care and periodic repackaging as the initial storage containers and their replacements degrade. In the long run, and such a facility by its very nature is in it for the long run, the ultimate cost of storing this stuff in Texas cannot possibly be recouped by the fees which initially will be charged for its storage.

In addition, the tens of thousands of metric tons of spent nuclear reactor fuel which might be stored in Texas contains approximately 1% plutonium. That's enough plutonium to make an ungodly number of nuclear bombs if it fell into the wrong hands. And the rest of the waste could be turned into all sorts of "dirty bombs". Am I the only person who realizes how foolhardy it would be to store such material right next to our porous southern border?