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Article: REP. UPTON: RECYCLING OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL OFFERS GREAT PROMISE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- July 15, 2008
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Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. (6th CD), issued the following statement:
Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), ranking Republican of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, made the following statement at this morning's subcommittee hearing on "Next Steps toward Permanent Nuclear Waste Disposal."
Upton's full opening statement is provided:
Chairman Boucher, thank you for holding this important hearing on the disposal of spent nuclear fuel. Our hearing today will largely focus on the Yucca Mountain repository as a solution to meet the government's spent nuclear fuel obligations. Storing our supply of spent fuel - in its current form - deep inside Yucca Mountain, isn't the ...