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Gary Palmer: “The Federal Government has spent more than $6 billion on settlements to utilities for the failure to collect nuclear…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2017
The Federal Government has spent more than $6 billion on settlements to utilities for the failure to collect nuclear waste.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer discusses the financial impact of the government's failure to manage nuclear waste.

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