I would urge that as you look at the nuclear component of our energy portfolio, you invest aggressively in potential technologies that could take our existing nuclear waste and reconfigure it into fuel and turn it into value.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “I would urge that as you look at the nuclear component of our energy portfolio, you invest aggressively in potential…”
On the recordOctober 26, 2009
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Whitehouse emphasizes the need for investment in nuclear waste reconfiguration technologies.
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