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Dirk Kempthorne: “If it is determined that Yucca Mountain cannot be the permanent repository, then your legislation states that Yucca…”

On the recordApril 10, 1997
If it is determined that Yucca Mountain cannot be the permanent repository, then your legislation states that Yucca Mountain will not be the temporary repository?
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Dirk Kempthorne
Idaho

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Questioning the provisions of legislation regarding Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository.

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