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John Shimkus: “So it was Secretary Chu who said do not consider Yucca Mountain in the Blue Ribbon Commission report?”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
So it was Secretary Chu who said do not consider Yucca Mountain in the Blue Ribbon Commission report?
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus questions the exclusion of Yucca Mountain from consideration by Secretary Chu.

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