John Ensign: “H.R. 1270 does in fact assume that Congress and the Members here are experts, not the scientists. H.R. 1270 says that we…”

“H.R. 1270 does in fact assume that Congress and the Members here are experts, not the scientists. H.R. 1270 says that we are going to ignore what the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board said, that there is no hurry, there is no urgency. As a matter of fact, if we put interim storage, and by the way, this bill is not about Yucca Mountain, this bill is about interim storage of nuclear waste at the Nevada test site. If we put interim storage at the Nevada test site, we will hurt the characterization process of Yucca Mountain. This bill is not about science, this is about politics. This is about all of us thinking that we are experts, over the geologists and all the scientists at the Nuclear Waste Technical Board and the like.”