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Ed Markey: So we are trying to encourage people, I would think, to not act in a way that is uneconomic, which is reprocessing, to…

On the recordSeptember 14, 2016
So we are trying to encourage people, I would think, to not act in a way that is uneconomic, which is reprocessing, to also act in a way which can provide a safe alternative.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes the need for economic and safe alternatives to nuclear reprocessing.

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