[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18147]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, the Blue Ribbon 
Commission on America's Nuclear Future is set to visit South Carolina 
and the Central Savannah River Area, CSRA, on January 6 and 7. Back in 
July, I invited the cochairmen of the commission to request that they 
hold their September meeting in the CSRA.
  I'm grateful that the commission is planning a visit. This is a 
perfect location for the President's nuclear commission to review 
policies related to the storage of nuclear waste.
  Waste material found in South Carolina is from the weapons production 
program of the Cold War resulting in victory over communism and also 
now from commercial nuclear reactors that produce energy. The Savannah 
River site should not indefinitely host nuclear waste. We should keep 
Yucca Mountain open. The closing has been criticized as breathtakingly 
irresponsible by The Post and Courier. The Greenville News 
editorialized last week that the Yucca closing is politically expedient 
but practically foolish.
  Nuclear energy is a clean, safe, and cost-effective energy source 
that has provided over half of the electricity in South Carolina for 30 
years. But in order to keep it safe, we must have a permanent site for 
disposal.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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