[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 69 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   TOP 10 REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT H.R. 1270, NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, top 10 reasons not to vote for H.R. 1270, 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997:
  Number 10, nuclear waste will be transported next to your 
constituents, their homes and their schools; No. 9, transportation of 
radioactive waste past private property results in its devaluation; No. 
8, shipping containers are designed to withstand a cash of only 30 
miles per hour; No. 7, the President will veto this bill; No. 6, the 
Senate will sustain the bill; No. 5, local officials are neither 
trained or equipped to cope with a nuclear disaster; No. 4, 33 faults 
and 30 earthquakes, Yucca mountain is not safe period; No. 3, H.R. 1270 
would result in the transfer of liability for radioactive waste to the 
U.S. taxpayer; No. 2, it will cost the American taxpayers an additional 
$2.3 billion to transport this waste rather than keeping it onsite; and 
finally, Mr. Speaker, No. 1, a single radioactive accident in this 
country would cost the American taxpayers nearly $20 billion and take 
over 450 days to clean it up.
  Mr. Speaker, it is very important that my colleagues learn the facts 
surrounding H.R. 1270 and then vote against it.

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