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toc media type="file" key="House Bill 4062.mp3" =Amendment to The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982= House Bill #4062 Original Sponsor: Jim Matheson (D-UT 2nd)

Background:
100 million gallons in storage at 158 sites in 40 states. One estimate of the toxicity of less than one gallon of waste suggests that if it were evenly spread around the world it would bring every person in the world to the danger level for radiation exposure. In the next 30 years, there will be over 150,000 shipments of waste to Mt. Yucca. These shipments will be passing through densely populated areas.

Summary:
To require commercial nuclear power plant operators to transfer spent nuclear fuel from the spent nuclear fuel pools of the operators into spent nuclear fuel dry casks at independent spent fuel storage installations of the operators that are licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to convey to the Secretary of Energy title to all such transferred spent nuclear fuel, to provide for the transfer to the Secretary of the independent spent fuels.

Effected People:
If this bill is not passed, anyone who is neer any nuclear pools or storage dumps will be effected by the radiation. They will suffer from radiation sickness which will cause death, birth defects, and many types of cancer. If the bill is passed then the spent fuel will be moved to dry cask storage. This will keep radiation away from populated areas.

Videos:
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Images:
This is Dry Cask Storage in a salt mine deep underground.

Bibliography:
Book: Metcalf, Tom, and Gena Metcalf. __Fueling the Future: Nuclear Power__. N.p.: n.p., 2006. Web: "Congressional Legislation." __CapWiz__. 2 Dec. 2008 <[|http://capwiz.com]>.

"Notebook: Nuclear Waste (CBS News)." __You Tube__. 21 Jan. 2008. 5 Dec. 2008 .

"Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel." __US NRC__. 22 Oct. 2008. NRC. 4 Dec. 2008 .

"US Department of Energy announces the availiability of disposal contracts for new nuclear reactors." __US Department of Energy__. 31 Oct. 2008. US Department of Energy. 2 Dec. 2008 .

"Waste in Storage at WIPP." __Flickr__. 24 Oct. 2008. 5 Dec. 2008 .