A business with storage in Denton faces a deadline to clean up its stored nuclear waste, according to the Denton Record-Chronicle.
The Texas Department of State Health Services issued an order on July 16 to U.S. Radiopharmaceuticals to decommission its two plants in Denton. Both manufacturing plants have been closed since 2009.
U.S. Radiopharmaceuticals uses its plant on Shady Oaks Drive to store low-level radioactive waste, while equipment used at the Shady Oaks plant and another plant on Jim Christal Road is also radioactive.
The state health department said U.S. Radiopharmaceuticals has until August 2019 to clean up the waste.
The company said it thinks the clean-up will cost at least $2 million.
A U.S. Radiopharmaceuticals representative and a state health department spokesperson both declined to comment to the Denton Record-Chronicle.
