[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 54 (Friday, May 3, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E715]
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                         TRAIN SECURITY BREACH

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                            HON. JIM GIBBONS

                               of nevada

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 2, 2002

  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw your attention to the 
unparalleled risk of transporting spent nuclear fuel to Yucca Mountain, 
Nevada.
  The DOE has promised that shipments of high level nuclear waste are 
among the most secure cargo in the US.
  However, just yesterday we discovered that two inmates from a North 
Carolina prison illegally boarded a train carrying spent nuclear fuel 
last month.
  Had these escapees intended to do great harm, the results could have 
been devastating.
  Although estimates anticipate over 400 nuclear waste shipping 
accidents to occur during the next 38 years of delivery to Yucca 
Mountain, there is absolutely no way to estimate that a terrorist will 
not board a train carrying spent fuel--and present our country with 
another tremendous tragedy.
  Mr. Speaker, let us not give terrorists an easy target.
  Vote no on transporting nuclear fuel throughout this Great Nation; 
through our neighborhoods, past our homes, schools, parks and 
waterways.
  Vote no on House Joint Resolution 87.

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