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On the recordOctober 26, 2009
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.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes the need for investment in nuclear waste reconfiguration technologies.

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