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Harry Reid: “A little simple math: 77,000 tons now exist. They can move at most 3,000 tons to someplace; let's say Yucca Mountain.…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2002
A little simple math: 77,000 tons now exist. They can move at most 3,000 tons to someplace; let's say Yucca Mountain. These reactors produce over 2,000 tons. I repeat, the math is not very much. The big lie has been the fact that they say they are going to have only one repository. They are still going to have 131 repositories. That is the way it is going to be. This is a big lie they have perpetuated for many years now, and it is absolutely false that they are going to have one repository. They will continue to have 131, plus the mobile Chernobyls that will be all over America on trucks, barges, and trains.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing nuclear waste management and the number of repositories during a Senate floor debate.

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