The Senator is correct. The answer is yes. As the Senator from North Dakota, in questions to this Senator earlier in the day asked, is there any reason for that? No. There is no scientific basis. There is no scientific theory. There are…

Absolutely none. There has been no evidence produced at hearings that this is adequate. There have been no scientific documents submitted. Everything is quite to the contrary. But I do not know anyone in the scientific community that would…

I advised my colleagues, Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye, that I have been very patient here, but I think it would be to their interest if they went back to their offices and spent the afternoon doing something more profitable. I am…

The operating cost for on-site dry cask storage amounts to about $1 million per year per site. It is $6 million to establish it and, after that, $1 million per year.

Yes. Now, the dry cask storage container would cost--in addition to making that acceptable for temporary storage, but as I will develop during my remarks, you do not have the transportation problems. I also say to my friend that the…

Whichever New York Senator has the floor. It appears this is a bipartisan statement. I want to make sure it is a nonregional statement, and covers the whole United States. We in Nevada have utilities extremely hindered by the result of…

I say to my friend in response to the question, I had forgotten about this. I appreciate very much the Senator bringing it to my attention. The Senator knows during the past 10 years, we have heard in this body, and other places, dire…

The families first agenda calls for pension reform, making pensions portable, and protecting women's pension benefits. Madam President, it is important, if we are going to have retirement, that it be dependable. And that is why we talk…

as Senator Dorgan indicated, we were asked by the minority leader to be cochairs of a Democratic task force to come up with an agenda for the Democrats. We were cochairs, and we had a number of people who worked on the task force. The…

The city of Las Vegas is part of a metropolitan area, and it is just like most areas in the United States. You have a city surrounded by suburbs, and that is, in effect, what we have in Las Vegas. Of course, the numbers that were brought…

In answer to my friend's question, I was not aware of these numbers, but having had the Senator read them to me, I must say that, if anything, these numbers are small because we can look at Las Vegas as an example. If you look at Las…

In Nevada they are saying, ``We're going to pour this cement pad and dump this out. If it leads to 100 millirems exposure, that is OK.''

The current law has health, safety and environmental safeguards to protect our citizenry from risks involved in moving and disposing of high-level nuclear waste. S. 1936 would effectively end the work on a permanent repository and abandon…

I remember very clearly that plea for mercy. ``We have to do it or we can't survive.'' The Senator is absolutely right. They said there would be parts of the United States that would have no power, there would be brownouts. Of course…

I appreciate the penetrating questions of the Senator from North Dakota. I only respond that I have been in this body as long as the Senator from North Dakota. We came at the same time. I think it is important to remind the people of…

I hope we can do a welfare reform bill. It is part of the Democratic families first agenda. It is something my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have said that they want to pass, and I believe that. I am a member of the Environment…

Yes. But that is when they start moving. That is when they declare the site scientifically safe.

I feel very confident in stating that the board knows--I am talking about the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board-- that of the more than 100 operating nuclear power reactors at 75 sites in 34 States, 23 will require additional storage…

I do not like the permanent repository in Nevada. It is unpopular. Any place Senator Bryan or Senator Reid goes in the State of Nevada, the seventh-largest State in America, any place we go, whether it is in Elko in northern Nevada, in the…

I know one Senator from North Dakota who does well in math. But we have 43 States, and they are at risk because of the truckloads--Arizona, 6,173 truckloads of nuclear waste; 783 trainloads of nuclear waste. We would go through the list…

The board sees no compelling technical or safety reason to move the spent fuel to a centralized storage facility.

It certainly does. As the Senator has pointed out, within a mile of these routes are 50 million Americans. Now, the Senator will recall--it happened within the past year, but I just mention it briefly--within a mile of the freeway between…

They were a little off. They are now approaching $3 billion for what they have done at Yucca Mountain. I say, without placing all the blame on the Department of Energy, a lot of it has been, I repeat, trying to put time ahead of science…

If we eliminate those, we have to transport these, probably now about 50-some-odd thousand metric tons of nuclear waste. This is how we would transport it. The cost is very significant, because what they have decided is that they would…

If you want to leave it on-site, you can establish a site for dry cask storage containment for $6 million, and after you get it in the cask, it will cost $1 million a year to keep an eye on it.