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John Shimkus: “When you walk away from a long-term geological storage, you upset the whole Waste Confidence Rule.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2013
When you walk away from a long-term geological storage, you upset the whole Waste Confidence Rule.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus argues that abandoning geological storage affects the Waste Confidence Rule.

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