[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15766]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                MORE NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE UNITED STATES

  (Mr. WAMP asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WAMP. Madam Speaker, as the House and the Senate continue to look 
for solutions to a problem of climate change and global warming, as the 
chairman of the Nuclear Energy Working Group here in the House, I just 
would remind everyone that we built our first 100 nuclear reactors in 
this country in less than 20 years; and we could build another 100 in 
the next 20 years if we really wanted to take a global leadership role 
on climate change, carbon reduction, pro-America, 5,000 jobs per plant. 
We can reprocess the spent fuel and turn it back into energy as they do 
in other countries, like Japan and France. All around the world they're 
looking back at us saying, Why does the United States not move towards 
nuclear power and nuclear energy? We need it from a competitiveness 
standpoint, from a jobs and economic standpoint, and to lead the world 
towards cleaner air. Nuclear is the way to go.

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