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David Cay Johnston: “Nuclear waste traveling the country is, first of all, solid in form. It is sealed in a cask that, as I say, if you get a…”

On the recordJuly 31, 1996
Nuclear waste traveling the country is, first of all, solid in form. It is sealed in a cask that, as I say, if you get a direct hit by something 30 times more powerful than an antitank weapon, what do you get? You get a third of an ounce of release. What does that do? It does not explode. It is not gaseous. It does not get down to the water supply. It is, as these matters go, relatively benign. And, even so, you cannot imagine a situation other than a terrorist attack where there is any release at all. So I submit that there are a lot of things to worry about, but transportation is not one of them.
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

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Discussing the safety of nuclear waste transportation.

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