Video: Rep. John Skimkus on nuclear energy and Yucca Mountain

In 1982 the federal government chose Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation's sole nuclear waste repository. Nearly 30 years later, nothing is being stored there--but radioactive waste is being secured in far less secure locations--69 of them.

KMOV-TV in St. Louis interviews Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), who is travelling to Yucca Mountain today with other members of Congress, including some Democrats.



Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), an environmental zealot, opposes the trip on cost grounds. But Shimkus tells the KMOV reporter, "When Henry Waxman attacks me, I take that as a badge of honor."

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