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Vernon Ehlers: “If we are serious about budget problems, we should worry about how we can reduce the costs of burying nuclear waste. We…”

On the recordJuly 24, 1996
If we are serious about budget problems, we should worry about how we can reduce the costs of burying nuclear waste. We have spent billions and billions of dollars on the nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Frankly, anything we can do to reduce the volume of nuclear waste is going to be a moneysaver, not an expenditure out the Federal budget. I support anything that is likely to reduce the amount of waste. It seems to me the supporter of the amendment makes a comment that it is reprocessing, and therefore it is bad. Of course it is reprocessing. That does not necessarily make it bad.
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Vernon Ehlers
Republican · Michigan
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Discussing the financial implications of the nuclear waste program during a House floor debate.

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