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Dick Durbin: “And so when you say that the commercial private sector does not support reprocessing, it would seem to me that we ought…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
And so when you say that the commercial private sector does not support reprocessing, it would seem to me that we ought to be asking, from the taxpayer's viewpoint, whether that is an economic alternative if we are ever to build Yucca Mountain and transport the--all the waste in America to that site.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin questions the economic viability of reprocessing nuclear waste for taxpayers.

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