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Harry Reid: “I know one Senator from North Dakota who does well in math. But we have 43 States, and they are at risk because of the…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
I know one Senator from North Dakota who does well in math. But we have 43 States, and they are at risk because of the truckloads--Arizona, 6,173 truckloads of nuclear waste; 783 trainloads of nuclear waste. We would go through the list. When you get to Missouri, it has almost 8,000 trainloads. This is unnecessary. We do not need to fill a single truck or a single train with nuclear waste. Do what the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board says: Leave it where it is until we get the permanent repository, and then you move it once.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Addressing concerns about the transportation of nuclear waste during Senate floor debate.

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