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On the recordAugust 1, 2001
For 25 years this country has prohibited the commercial reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. We have prohibited reprocessing because it creates plutonium, and plutonium is the raw material of nuclear bombs. We do not want to proliferate that raw material. This underlying bill reverses that 25-year prohibition and permits what they are calling an advanced fuel recycling technology. That is reprocessing. This is a bad rule because of that and because of all the other reasons we have heard this morning, and we should vote ``no'' on the rule. We do not want to add to the proliferation of nuclear weapons in this country and around the world. This is an issue that goes beyond our own national energy policy and affects our international policy. We are reversing with hardly any notice this 25-year policy. It is wrong. The rule is wrong and should be defeated.
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Hon. Joseph M. Hoeffel
Pennsylvania
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Opposing a bill that would reverse a 25-year prohibition on the commercial reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.

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