Re: Public Hearing to Consider Nuclear Waste Shipments Through St. Louis and the Midwest

[Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

At 03:57 PM 1/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Wednesday January 19, 11:49 am Eastern Time
>
>Company Press Release
>
>Public Hearing to Consider Nuclear Waste Shipments Through St. Louis 
>and the Midwest  
>
.........
>
>--   In addition to the rail shipments, between 670 and 1,010 truck 
>shipments from Florida nuclear reactors would also travel through St. 
>Louis on I-70 and I-270.  

I always thought the shortest distance between two points was a straight
line?  Why ship something through St. Louis from Florida to Nevada?



Tad Blanchard                   NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
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