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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
If I remember the debate on this, the push for Yucca Mountain came from the private sector.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin recalls the private sector's push for Yucca Mountain as a solution for nuclear waste.

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