Allen Benson
Allen Benson
Allen Wilbert Benson, nicknamed "Bullet", was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues in 1933. He would play for the Washington Senators...
ability confident country material moving safely transport
Everything would be convoyed safely, ... We've been moving this kind of material around country for a very long time, and we're confident in our ability to safely transport this material.
develop intensely mountain moving south stand study youngest
We did intensely study this, and when you stand on Yucca Mountain the cinder cones are moving away. The youngest one is 80,000 years old so if any new ones develop they're moving south and away,
february president secretary studied
And we did look at it, ... We studied it, characterized it and in February of 2002 the (DOE) secretary recommended it to the president who recommended it to Congress.
safety
Everything in there is old. This is a safety issue.
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Even though you get five to six inches of rain each year and we're in a desert environment, some amount of moisture will penetrate the mountain and over the millennia we might want to make sure we'll use a drip shield,
depending everybody function gets guidance
Everybody gets different guidance depending on what their function is,
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We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.
coming looking plans simply year
simply instruct the contractors what they should be looking at for the coming year and come back to us with what their plans are.
department energy general giving referred
We're giving credence to these because we referred them to Inspectors General of Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior,
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We found these issues and we made them public, so I don't know what kind of cover-up others are talking about, ... And in a Congressional hearing the principal architect of the e-mails testified under oath that he falsified no information (about the mountain or its safety).
evaluation question
It's an evaluation of what we are doing and a question of should we be doing it.
coming excuse nobody question realistic stop valuable
When you want to stop something you'll find every excuse you can to question it, but what are the alternatives (to Yucca Mountain)? ... Nobody is coming up with any realistic or valuable alternatives.
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We're not sure we need the full 20 years. All we're getting out of it is the right of way to be able to build the rail line.
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Yucca Mountain was recommended by the U.S. Geological Survey because of the attributes the site possesses including a stable geology, a deep water table, no one lives there, it's a desert environment and ... it's remote,