[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 75 (Monday, May 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          OPPOSE H.R. 45 AND KEEP NUCLEAR WASTE OUT OF NEVADA

  (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, when I was a young child, people used to 
say that little green men lived on Mars and the moon was made of 
cheese. That is when fantasies and rumors were the tools that shaped 
opinions and science was the unattainable.
  Unfortunately, many of my colleagues look at transporting and storing 
high-level nuclear waste in Nevada in much the same way.
  Fantasy and nonsense have no place in scientific studies, studies 
which prove that a repository site at Yucca Mountain is 10 times more 
prone to earthquakes and lava flows than government scientists 
previously estimated, studies that show Nevada ranks third in the 
Nation for current earthquake activity and has experienced over 650 
earthquakes in the last 20 years.
  That means with over 30 earthquakes a year. Clearly Yucca Mountain is 
not suitable and is one of the worst places to store the deadliest 
material ever created by man.
  The space program proved that the moon is not made of cheese and that 
little green men do not live on Mars, and if the DOE properly addresses 
this new scientific information as the law requires them to do, they 
will not force green people to live in Nevada.
  Mr. Speaker, oppose H.R. 45 and place true science before fantasy, 
misinformation and conjecture.

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