Political Quotes

“I want to point out to the Senator from Missouri that nuclear energy includes about 13 percent of the power generated in Missouri. Coal is 82 percent. It is about 95 percent in combination. Mr. President, 388 metric tons of spent fuel are currently in the State of Missouri. As a consequence, I think it is important--and if I can have the attention of the Senator from Missouri--to point out this transportation route because currently the shipment of waste, this transuranic waste, goes out of Missouri and routes under this highway system into New Mexico. There is no proposed existing transportation route that will be taking the waste through Missouri. This waste is currently at the University of Missouri research reactor. It goes out on 70, up on 55, comes over on 880, and down on 25 into New Mexico. My point is, while it is obviously possible that the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Department of Transportation would choose other routes, it is clear to point out that currently there has been and there is no logic to suggest there would be a movement of waste through the State of Missouri when currently transportation routes to WIPP do not go through Missouri; they actually remove waste from the State of Missouri.”