[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 77 (Wednesday, June 6, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H2894]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               YUCCA MOUNTAIN SHOULD BE PUT IN MOTHBALLS

  (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, this morning I want to take a brief moment 
and address some of the concerns of shipping and storing nuclear waste.
  Recently, a former DOE official publicly announced that plans for a 
nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain should be abandoned. Mr. W. 
Kenneth Davis, Energy Undersecretary from 1981 to 1983, had supported 
the Yucca Mountain repository site under the Reagan administration. But 
now, Mr. Davis maintains that shipping deadly nuclear waste across the 
country to Yucca Mountain should not occur. He said, ``Yucca Mountain, 
which is unlikely to be licensed, is unreasonable in view of the 
shipping required, if nothing else, and in my opinion should be put in 
mothballs.''
  Mr. Speaker, shipping nuclear waste across America to Yucca Mountain 
endangers the lives of every American. Let us heed Mr. Davis' advice, 
and put the plan for Yucca Mountain in mothballs, where it belongs. 
There is not enough time in 1 minute to name all of the dangers of 
shipping nuclear waste across America or to list all of the dangerous 
plans of storing nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain. This will be 
addressed as we further debate this issue.

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