We have spent an enormous amount of money under the premise that we needed a national repository. We don't have one.
Bernie Sanders: “We have spent an enormous amount of money under the premise that we needed a national repository. We don't have one.”
On the recordMay 4, 2010
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Sanders critiques the lack of a national repository for nuclear waste despite significant spending.
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