State Rep. Jeanie Riddle, RMokane, lives closer to the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant than any other Missouri lawmaker.
And she thinks the world's recent concerns with Japan's potential nuclear disaster is an even stronger reason to push forward with efforts to build a second reactor at the power plant site near Reform.
Missouri opponents argue it's just too dangerous to consider building another nuclear power plant so near the New Madrid fault - which shook almost 200 years ago with the most violent earthquake known in the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains.
"The site permit looks at all those things," Riddle said last week. "It looks at the seismic table, the (possibilities) - it is the site analysis, is it safe to have it there?
"It's our emergency preparedness plan."