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__**Bill Purpose-**__ The purpose of this bill is to make sure that nuclear testing does not affect the quality of the human environment. Some things they are going to do are inform citizens in the area of the time and date of the testing, the affects on water it will have, and on air and environment. They must hold a public meeting before and after the testing to discuss the results and how it is going to work and what it is going to do. The Department of Energy also has to test for radiation after every testing occurs. The nuclear weapons age began July 16, 1945 when the US detonated the first nuclear bomb. US has carried out 1.030 nuclear weapons tests. And wherever testing has occurred, there have been environmental problems in the area soon after. Radioactivity has leaked into the environment and caused areas to be uninhabitable and peoples' lives have been affected as well.

An example of problems with nuclear testing in general is that on April 26, 1986, An accident occurred at a nuclear power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine in the former USSR. The accident was caused by a sudden surge of power. It destroyed the reactor and released massive amounts of radioactivity into the environment. With all of this radiation and all these fumes floating around it was not safe to stay in the area. Every area within an 18 mile radius was forced to be evacuated.The explosion caused many severe radiation effects almost immediately. Out of the 600 workers present at the plant, 28 died, and 134 received high radiation doses and suffered from radiation sickness.Then 200,000 recovery workers and cleanup workers who had to go back to the scene were contaminated also.This is why nuclear testing is such a problem. We are so lucky that not more deaths did not occur. This bill does definitely need to exist to save us from things like this.

__**Sponsor-**__

The main sponsor is Sen. Robert Bennett [R, UT]

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__**Bibliography**__ __ Green Peace __. .

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