Angie Craig: “The transportation system for nuclear waste is safer than transporting a quart of milk home. Have you ever dropped a…”

“The transportation system for nuclear waste is safer than transporting a quart of milk home. Have you ever dropped a quart of milk on the floor of the supermarket or on the floor of the kitchen? I have, and I have burst the container. You can drop these containers 50 feet onto a piece of concrete and they do not burst. That is the characteristics of the container. I think, when we also get in our car at the supermarket and drive home, we do not have a police escort in front of us and behind us, making sure that the road is perfectly clear so someone does not sideswipe us at the intersection or hit us as we are leaving. But the reality is, the transportation of high-level radioactive materials in this country is, by far, much safer than transporting a quart of milk home from the supermarket. But to our knowledge not one curie of radioactivity has ever been spilled going from a reactor to a storage site, once it was containerized and in its mode of transportation.”