| Yucca Mountain |
May 17, 2012 |
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John Shimkus, R-IL
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"Michigan has five nuclear reactors. They’re all on the Great Lakes—either Lake Michigan or Lake Superior, I think—and the waste is right next to these Great Lakes. So we want to do a comparison/contrast, as I do every week based upon a region of the country, and compare where the nuclear waste is in Michigan to where it should be, under Federal law—the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act and the adjoining amendments passed in 1987—that says we need to consolidate our high-level nuclear waste and put it in one single repository that is underneath a mountain in a desert, and that place is Yucca Mountain."
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| In Defense Of The Great State Of Nevada |
April 18, 2012 |
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Shelley Berkley, D-NV
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"Mr. Speaker, today I rise in defense of the great State of Nevada. For almost 30 years, out-of-state Washington politicians have been trying to dump the Nation’s nuclear waste in my State’s backyard at a place called Yucca Mountain."
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| Yucca Mountain |
April 17, 2012 |
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John Shimkus, R-IL
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"This is not new. We’ve been doing it for decades. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act was established in 1982. The amendments were passed through this Chamber and signed into law in 1987, which identified a long-term geological repository at a place called Yucca Mountain in the desert in Nevada."
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| Yucca Mountain And Buffett Rule |
April 17, 2012 |
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Shelley Berkley, D-NV
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"Let me tell you, originally, when they came up with this nonsensical plan, which is purely political, that it has nothing to do with science. They said that we could store the rods, the nuclear waste, in Yucca Mountain with no problem, leave it there. Then we realized that that wouldn’t work because of the groundwater. So then we decided that they would put their nuclear waste in canisters. But what do you know, there are no canisters that currently exist that can safely store this stuff. Then they came up with shields that would go around the canisters that don’t exist to be put into Yucca Mountain."
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