Political Quotes

“This is an estimate. It is all it can possibly be at this time because, clearly, we do not ship this material. We have had experience in shipping in the United States. We had 2,996 shipments of spent fuel under the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1964 to the year 2000. We have shipped that waste 1.7 million miles. There it is on the chart. Low-level radioactive waste--you can see it on the chart--896 shipments. That is what we have done in the past. I cannot in good conscience do anything more than submit what we have been given as an estimate of the number of shipments. I will not make a determination as to whether that is factual, but it is their best estimate. There is no reason to believe it should not be relatively accurate.”