[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4988]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             YUCCA MOUNTAIN

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. I rise today to reject Republican calls for an 
investigation into the decision to end Yucca Mountain. Let me save this 
Republican Congress a lot of time and a lot of money. President Obama 
put a stop to Yucca Mountain because it is too dangerous a site to 
store radioactive nuclear waste. This is a political stunt with one 
goal--turning my home State of Nevada into a nuclear garbage dump. 
Those pushing this review are lying about the dump safety. They know 
Yucca Mountain is smack in the middle of an earthquake zone. There's 
volcanic activity. There's groundwater issues.
  Have we learned nothing about what is happening now in Japan? We 
ought to be demanding that the nuclear power plants act now to secure 
nuclear waste in dry-cask storage. Dry-cask storage will increase 
public safety now. Investigating Yucca Mountain will only increase the 
danger and waste money. Shame on the nuclear industry and its allies 
for being more interested in protecting their profits than in 
protecting public safety.
  That is why, even in the face of one of the world's worst nuclear 
disasters unfolding now in Japan, the nuclear industry and its ``nuked-
up'' buddies in the United States Congress are playing partisan games 
with nuclear waste.

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