Angie Craig: “The most I can say--and I think my colleagues deserve to hear this--is that the language that has been offered and the…”

“The most I can say--and I think my colleagues deserve to hear this--is that the language that has been offered and the statements that have been offered this afternoon by my colleague from Nevada as it relates to transportation are simply misleading. By the way, when you talk of Chernobyl or you talk of Hiroshima and you talk of explosions, casks do not explode, period. There is no one in the scientific field today who would make that argument. If they were breached, they would release radioactivity, but they do not explode, and it is unfair to in any way paint the verbal picture that that kind of risk would be involved. What the paper from Missouri did not say was that waste now traffics through St. Louis, MO, and it has for a good number of years in its route across the country to the State of Idaho, or to other States where the waste ultimately finds a temporary storage destination. So for this to be something new in the city of St. Louis is not true.”