Harry Reid: “I will also state that the Physicians for Social Responsibility, a group consisting of 16,000 American physicians…”

“I will also state that the Physicians for Social Responsibility, a group consisting of 16,000 American physicians, oppose this legislation. We have a letter from their executive director, Dr. Musil, who says to every Senator: We . . . oppose Senate bill 104 . . . because it mandates a badly flawed nuclear waste management strategy which potentially endangers public health. S. 104 would allow construction of an ``interim'' nuclear waste dump near Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Storing highly radioactive waste at the site presents a potentially serious public health danger. The Geological Society of America has reported at least 15 small earthquakes since May 1995 at Yucca Mountain, which sits atop two earthquake faults.”