Jacky Rosen Quotes

The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.

I don’t want the West to be used as the place where we store the nation’s nuclear waste.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

I've been working tirelessly in the House to help ensure Nevada does not become a dumping ground for the rest of the nation's nuclear waste, and I will continue that fight in the Senate.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Nobody wants nuclear waste in their back yards. In a democracy where everyone has a say, most people say NO!.

What right to 49 states have to punish the citizens of one state by dumping their garbage in that state without their consent.

For more than 30 years, the state of Nevada and local communities have rejected the Yucca Mountain project. In fact, the state has filed over 200 contentions against the Department of Energy's license application, challenging the adequacy of the department's environmental impact assessments.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

If they [the Federal government] can't handle the [toxic] waste, they shouldn't generate it.

We're not going to allow Virginia to become a trash depository for New York or anyplace else.

Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment.

Zion and communities like it have been unfairly saddled with storing our nation's stranded nuclear waste... with no compensation in return. The federal government needs to make right by these communities.

The misguided efforts of some members of Congress to revive Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Nevadans, and our national security.

My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.