Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring U.S. House Rep. John Shimkus on Tuesday, October 20 from 12:40 p.m.-1:40 p.m.

Nuclear waste has no final disposition solution in the United States, even though Yucca Mountain, the proposed site of a deep geological nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada, is the law of the land. Rep. Shimkus will discuss the prospects of developing a solution to this issue.

Shimkus represents Illinois’ 15th congressional House district. Among Shimkus’s duties in Congress, he is a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Republican Leader of its Environment & Climate Change Subcommittee. He also serves on the Health and Communications & Technology Subcommittees; the NG9-1-1, Recycling, Coal, Steel, and Baltic Caucuses; and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents.