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Transcript: DOMENICI GAINS SUPPORT FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL RESEARCH
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- May 20, 1999
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 20, 1999
DOMENICI GAINS SUPPORT FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL RESEARCH
New Nuclear Waste Bill to Contain Bid to Improve Spent Fuel Strategies
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Pete Domenici has gained critical support
for
a policy that could greatly reduce the radioactive life of nuclear
waste
and even find ways to use it as an energy resource.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Frank Murkowski
(R-Alaska) on Wednesday signaled his intent to incorporate Domenici`s
nuclear
spent fuel legislative proposal into a planned compromise bill on
American
nuclear policy. In a hearing on Murkowski`s Nuclear Waste Policy Act
of
1999, key ...