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Harry Reid: “If we eliminate those, we have to transport these, probably now about 50-some-odd thousand metric tons of nuclear waste.…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
If we eliminate those, we have to transport these, probably now about 50-some-odd thousand metric tons of nuclear waste. This is how we would transport it. The cost is very significant, because what they have decided is that they would have to move most of it by rail. But to get it to rail, they have to go by trucks to get it to some of the rail sites. My staff just tells me that the information we have been given is that the interim site would cost $1.3 billion, plus the transportation.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the transportation and costs associated with nuclear waste management.

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