Once upon a time, Westinghouse Electric was a name you could trust.

No more.

The bankrupt company is in trouble again and dragging its feet on cleaning up a nuclear mess.

Federal regulators say Westinghouse does not plan to clean up a uranium leak under its nuclear fuel plant off Bluff Road despite evidence it could reach local water sources.

The chance the radioactive leak could affect Lexington County seems small unless it got into the Congaree River. But many Richland County neighbors fear water from their wells may be contaminated.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported Westinghouse wants a 40-year extension on its permit.

Cleaning up the leak will require removing 10 feet of soil under the plant only after it is closed.

A new permit would delay that until at least 2058.

“The contaminated material will likely be a source of future groundwater and/ or surface water contamination,” the NRC wrote in a June assessment.

Westinghouse makes nuclear fuel rods there for nuclear reactors like the two it failed to complete for SCANA last year.

The NRC said a uranium leak was discovered in 2011, contaminating nearby soil at levels more than 1,000 times above normal.

The NRC said it doesn’t know how much leaked from it or another spill through a hole in a concrete floor.

The SC Department of Health and Environmental Control said it has found no contamination off the site.