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John Ensign: “The 175 shipments per year the Department of Energy...would be if every shipment was in dedicated trains, which the…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2002
The 175 shipments per year the Department of Energy...would be if every shipment was in dedicated trains, which the Department of Energy so far has been opposed to because of the expense of dedicated trains. The other thing is that we have no rail built in Nevada to make possible the rail segment or the rail scenario. You have to have the rail built in Nevada to be able to go from rail to rail, and there is no rail leading to the Nevada Test Site. The reason I bring this up, and the reason I would like at least to have this on the record as part of the Senate debate is because it is huge amounts more of shipments, from what I understand, unless it is all dedicated trains.
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Discussing the logistics of nuclear waste shipments during Senate debate.

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