[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8844]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      NUCLEAR WASTE TRANSPORTATION

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, every day our headlines read about how Vice 
President Cheney thinks nuclear power is the answer to our Nation's 
energy woes. I hope my colleagues and this administration heed my 
warning, that unless we stop the Yucca Mountain plan, at least 77,000 
tons of toxic, dangerous nuclear waste are going to be shipped through 
43 States en route to Yucca Mountain.
  It is a mathematic certainty that the continuing transfer of lethal 
waste will result in perhaps hundreds of accidents and the potential 
for catastrophe is very real. Governors and State legislators across 
this country have emphatically said they do not want nuclear waste 
traveling through their States. It is time that we listen to their 
concerns and heed their warnings.
  An accident in one's district could cost billions of dollars in 
cleanup and the effects on our constituents would be disastrous. Let us 
eliminate the dangers of this ``mobile Chernobyl'' by developing 
methods to safely store the waste where it is currently located.
  Please join with me in preventing a national disaster.

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