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...
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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,
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simply instruct the contractors what they should be looking at for the coming year and come back to us with what their plans are.
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The farm lab helped me a lot with a job now. Learning to irrigate and working on the tractors in the farm lab helped in my job last summer. Without Mr. Fink and that experience, I would have had no idea.
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In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.
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It's an evaluation of what we are doing and a question of should we be doing it.
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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.
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Everything in there is old. This is a safety issue.
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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).
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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.
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Everybody gets different guidance depending on what their function is,
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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,
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Yucca Mountain was formed 10 to 15 million years ago, and it's not a volcano; it's the result of volcanoes,
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This is a tough response, when you tell a contractor they no longer have the authority to submit work they are contractually required to submit because they are not following procedure.
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We're giving credence to these because we referred them to Inspectors General of Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior,