Political Quotes

“In light of all that you have just said, it is long overdue. It is decades in coming, that we finally have this time on the Senate floor where we can discuss what do we do with this nuclear waste. This is not an issue as to whether or not you are pronuclear or antinuclear, because, if you turned off every nuclear powerplant today, we have hundreds of metric tons of nuclear waste sitting throughout the United States and something has to be done with that nuclear waste. It has been stated by a number of the speakers here today that we have 34 States that currently have commercial nuclear waste that is kept in those States. Let me also point out that, according to information provided by the Nuclear Energy Institute, there are 32 States that rely on nuclear energy for part of their electrical power. In addition, a number of reports indicate that 23 nuclear utilities will begin to run out of storage space for spent nuclear fuel in 2 years--in 2 years; and in 12 years another 55 reactors are expected to run out of storage space.”