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Statement from Congresswoman Shelley Berkley on the 
Yucca Mountain Repository Environmental Impact Statement 
 
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Las Vegas (August 6, 1999) — “To say I am unhappy with this report is something of an understatement. It did not even begin to answer my questions about why Nevada, which doesn’t have a single nuclear reactor, is being singled out to receive the nuclear payload for the entire nation. It treats Yucca Mountain as a done deal, with no alternative sites or contingency plans. 

  It doesn’t address the problem of transport.  Just how do we expect to safely transport 70,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste over the nation’s interstates and railways?  How will we get it there? Do people across the nation really understand the implications of having high-level nuclear waste whizzing past their back fence and traveling alongside them on the interstate?

 The Environmental Impact Statement is a 1,400 page conclusion in search of a reason, and I will never accept forcing Nevada to become the nation’s nuclear junkyard.” 

 
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