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Transcript: GAO STUDY FINDS LOW RISK ASSOCIATED WITH SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL TRANSIT
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- August 13, 2003
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For Immediate Release August 13, 2003 GAO Study Finds Low Risk Associated
With Spent Nuclear Fuel Transit WASHINGTON (August 13) - House Energy
and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and Subcommittee
on
Energy and Air Quality Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) today announced
the results
of a GAO study, requested by Barton, concluding that the likelihood
of
widespread harm to human health and the environment from a terrorist
attack
or transportation accident involving spent nuclear fuel is very low,
and
extremely unlikely. "Spent nuclear fuel belongs at Yucca Mountain
when
that facility is licensed," said Chairman Barton. "We need to move
this
fuel ...