[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5132-5133]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                IN DEFENSE OF THE GREAT STATE OF NEVADA

  (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, today I rise in defense of the great State 
of Nevada. For almost 30 years, out-of-state Washington politicians 
have been trying to dump the Nation's nuclear waste in my State's 
backyard at a place called Yucca Mountain.
  The site is 90 miles from the world's greatest tourism destination, 
Las

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Vegas, and in order to get the radioactive toxic nuclear waste to this 
location they have to truck it on Nevada roads, through Nevada 
neighborhoods, and by Nevada schools. A single accident would have 
devastating consequences to the health of the people of the State of 
Nevada, not to mention the economy.
  Mr. Speaker, this is the most dangerous substance known to man. But 
there are still those in Washington trying to force it on the people of 
my State. One of those people is Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner 
Kristine Svinicki. Thankfully, her term ends on June 30. I strongly 
oppose the renomination of someone who puts the interests of the 
nuclear industry ahead of the people of the State of Nevada. And I urge 
my Nevada colleagues in the Senate to do everything in their power to 
ensure this Yucca nuclear waste pusher does not have another term.

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