Rad Waste Deja Vu for Former Rep. John Shimkus

摘要

In mid-August, with his former colleagues enjoying a week of recess back home, a self-described “nuclear-waste guy” with nearly a quarter of a century on Capitol Hill worked on lesson plans for his new teaching gig, watching nuclear-waste history repeat itself. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) ended a 24-year career representing Illinois’s 15th congressional district in January. During that run, Shimkus distinguished himself as one of the very few lawmakers willing to spend his hard-accrued political capital on nuclear-waste-policy reform.