Angie Craig: “for a few moments I want to discuss the issue of transportation safety. This morning I went back to my office after…”

“for a few moments I want to discuss the issue of transportation safety. This morning I went back to my office after there had been some debate on the floor about transportation safety in this country. I know that it is a key concern to a good many Senators, including yourself, as waste moves from across the country to a central location, as to how that waste will be handled. I saw something that surprised even me even though I have had the privilege over the years to see some of the containers in which nuclear waste is transported. Scary statements have been made by the Senators from Nevada that there would be risk. I think they were using a term that was of their invention called a mobile Chernobyl. That is a dramatic statement that absolutely has no basis of truth because we have been transporting waste for a good number of years, and simply it does not exist. I will suggest why. As a matter of fact, there have been 2,400 shipments of spent nuclear fuel by the nuclear energy industry, and others, over the past 25 years. No fatality, no injury or environmental damage has ever occurred because of radioactive cargo.”