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Tom Udall: Should a State as a whole have the right to accept or reject a nuclear waste site in its borders?

On the recordJune 6, 2012
Should a State as a whole have the right to accept or reject a nuclear waste site in its borders?
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Tom Udall
Democratic · New Mexico

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Udall questions the authority of states over nuclear waste sites.

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