Holtec International, facing an "untenable path forward" for a long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico, will explore options in other states, the Camden firm has announced.

Holtec and its partner in the New Mexico project "mutually agreed upon cancelling the land purchase agreement," the company said in a statement.

That allows Holtec "to work with other states who are amenable to used fuel storage," the statement added.

The facility, which was to be built in a remote area of southeastern New Mexico, would have held radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the country.

Beyond Nuclear , a nonprofit whose members opposed the project, called the development a "hard-won, grassroots environmental justice victory." Members of this organization fought the project

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