Nuke Waste Decision Highlights Need For Gordon’s Bill

Bart praised Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s recent decision to oppose an application to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dispose the remainder in Utah. Bart said a bill he introduced would help set a national policy against foreign waste imports.

"Gov. Huntsman's decision stands to benefit Tennessee, Utah and the entire nation,” said Gordon. “But we shouldn't have to go through this process on a case-by-case basis every time an import application comes before the NRC. We need to set a national policy to ban imports of foreign generated nuclear waste, and that’s why I have introduced a bill to do exactly that.” To read more, click here.

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Bart comments on U.S. competitiveness and innovation

As a young boy in Murfreesboro in November of 1957, I remember looking into the sky and seeing a blinking red dot pass overhead that struck fear into countless Americans. The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik and the beginning of the space race marked a period of unprecedented investment in research and math and science education in this country.

In the half century since Sputnik, the United States became a world leader in science and technology, education, research and innovation. These efforts fueled the nation’s economy and allowed each generation of Americans to inherit a better standard of living than their parents. But I fear our country is coasting on investments we made 50 years ago. Today, with the rapid economic and technological advances of other countries, I fear we are now on the cusp of another Sputnik moment.

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