The point being is, that we do not have a site-selection process here that has any rationale. And I guess the last question I would ask, because the Nevada test site has been an area that has been used, as the Senator correctly points out, for testing, is the Senator aware that the equivalency of 85,000 metric tons of nuclear waste which would be stored would require 2.3 million atomic tests the size of the test at Alamogordo during World War II--2.3 million tests?
William Bryan: “The point being is, that we do not have a site-selection process here that has any rationale. And I guess the last…”
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Discussing the rationale behind the site-selection process for nuclear waste storage.
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