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At about 14kWh(th)/m^3 desalination, that would have been about 1000,000,000 m^3 of fresh water. Call it ~25,000,000m^3/year. That is barely worth it.

Waste Control Specialists, a Dallas company that operates a storage and disposal facility in Andrews County on the Texas-New Mexico line, made its request Tuesday to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Waste Control asked NRC officials to suspend their environmental and safety reviews of WCS’ application to store highly radioactive waste until a possible sale to the Utah company EnergySolutions.

The Department of Justice and EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists, two nuclear waste disposal companies, offered opposing views of how vigorously the companies compete in the first day of the government’s antitrust trial. The government sued in November 2016 to block the companies’ proposed $367 million deal. The Wilmington, Del., trial is the antitrust division’s first in the Trump administration. The DOJ argues that the deal is a horizontal merger combining the closest competitors in the nuclear waste disposal industry. EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists process low-level radioactive waste for nuclear power plants, hospitals and research facilities. Because the two companies face little competition other than each other, prices would go up after the merger, DOJ attorney Julie Elmer said in an opening statement. “The loss of head-to-head competition between EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists would be particularly harmful because there is no firm waiting in the wing to enter,” Elmer said.