23 Quotes by Allen Benson

When you want to stop something you'll find every excuse you can to question it, but what are the alternatives (to Yucca Mountain)? ... Nobody is coming up with any realistic or valuable alternatives.

We did intensely study this, and when you stand on Yucca Mountain the cinder cones are moving away. The youngest one is 80,000 years old so if any new ones develop they're moving south and away,

We're giving credence to these because we referred them to Inspectors General of Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior,

simply instruct the contractors what they should be looking at for the coming year and come back to us with what their plans are.

We're in the process of putting a new organization in place, which is going to take a few weeks. There will be significant organizational changes.

We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.

We're not sure we need the full 20 years. All we're getting out of it is the right of way to be able to build the rail line.

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).

Everything in there is old. This is a safety issue.