The staff brief--the majority staff brief for this hearing says that the Yucca Mountain site has passed all technical and safety reviews and has been found safe to store high-level nuclear waste for a million years. Is that correct?
Barton questions the safety of the Yucca Mountain site for nuclear waste storage.
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