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David Cay Johnston: “Mr. President, one of the most curious things about this whole debate to me is how my friends from Nevada can be so…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1996
Mr. President, one of the most curious things about this whole debate to me is how my friends from Nevada can be so opposed to the storage of nuclear waste when they have not only countenanced but welcomed and sought the explosion of nuclear tests in Nevada. What Nevada has done through the years is sought and received hundreds of nuclear tests. The technology for those nuclear tests in the past has been: You drill a deep hole and you explode this nuclear test which, in turn, leaves the full spectrum of nuclear waste we are talking about, nuclear waste from civilian nuclear plants. Cesium 137, strontium 90, plutonium--all of it is contained in what amounts to big, bulbous holes down deep in the ground. Some of those tests were actually detonated in the water table. And there are hundreds of them.
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the contradiction of Nevada's stance on nuclear waste storage and nuclear testing.

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