Mr. CRAIG. The Senator from Nevada said you and I portrayed the transportation as safe as transporting a quart of milk
home from the store. I think the record ought to be corrected. The transportation system for nuclear waste is safer than
transporting a quart of milk home. 
Have you ever dropped a quart of milk on the floor of the supermarket or on the floor of the kitchen? I have, and I have burst
the container. You can drop these containers 50 feet onto a piece of concrete and they do not burst. That is the characteristics
of the container. 

I think, when we also get in our car at the supermarket and drive home, we do not have a police escort in front of us and
behind us, making sure that the road is perfectly clear so someone does not sideswipe us at the intersection or hit us as we are
leaving. 

I know what the Senator from Nevada was trying to do. But the reality is, the transportation of high-level radioactive materials
in this country is, by far, much safer than transporting a quart of milk home from the supermarket. There is a lot of milk spilled
between the supermarket and the kitchen of the average residence in our country. But to our knowledge not one curie of
radioactivity has ever been spilled going from a reactor to a storage site, once it was containerized and in its mode of
transportation. 

I thank my colleague for yielding. That is an important correction. We ought not make light of our arguments here because the
facts are very clear when it comes to transporting this critical material.