Nuclear Energy Industry Salutes Senate for Approving Yucca Mountain

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Nuclear Energy Industry Salutes Senate for Approving Yucca Mountain



WASHINGTON, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Senate today passed S.J. 

Res. 34, a resolution approving Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the site for 

a federal repository for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive 

nuclear waste from U.S. defense programs. Following is a statement by 

Joe F. Colvin, the Nuclear Energy Institute's president and chief 

executive officer.



"This is a great day for U.S. energy security and common-sense 

environmentalism. A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators from all 

regions of the country had the courage of their convictions to choose 

good public policy in the face of intense political pressure.



"The Senate's approval of the Yucca Mountain resolution is a clear 

signal of continued congressional support for nuclear energy and the 

reliable, clean electricity it supplies to one of every five American 

homes and businesses. Consolidating used nuclear fuel from nuclear 

power plants and high-level radioactive waste from U.S. defense 

programs is good for U.S. energy security, national security and our 

environment. It is also vitally important that our government keep 

faith with the millions of electricity consumers who since 1983 have 

committed $18 billion to finance the government's nuclear waste 

disposal program.



"Twenty years of unprecedented scientific evaluation of every 

geologic and environmental aspect have clearly determined Yucca 

Mountain's suitability as a repository for used nuclear fuel. It's 

important that the government continue to move forward on the Yucca 

Mountain project as long as science deems it prudent to do so. 

Today's vote rightly allows the Yucca Mountain evaluation process to 

proceed to the licensing phase.



"The industry fully realizes that safe transportation of used nuclear 

fuel and defense waste is critical to the success of the Yucca 

Mountain program. It is dedicated to maintaining its stellar record 

of the past 38 years that has witnessed more than 3,000 

shipments without a single incidence of a release of radiation.



"The industry appreciates the leadership that President Bush, Energy 

Secretary Abraham, Senators Bingaman, Murkowski and 

Craig, Speaker Hastert, Congressmen Tauzin, Dingell, Barton, Boucher 

and many other members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have 

provided to advance this program. They are all to be commended for 

their vigorous efforts to protect the environment and strengthen our 

nation's energy security."



The Nuclear Energy Institute is the nuclear energy industry's 

Washington- based policy organization. This news release and 

additional information about nuclear energy are available on NEI's 

Internet site at http://www.nei.org .



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