How ironic. On the same day President Bush announced his executive order to do "everything in our power to end the days of cooking the books," the GOP pushed through the Senate a bill that will create the United States' first nuclear-waste site.
The administration's proposal to stash away nuclear waste is another attack on our rights and health. We need look no further into the past than the Bush/Cheney ties with Enron to see how they value citizens.
The Senate vote signifies congressional leaders' negligence to make the public interest their first priority. This nuclear waste cannot be stored safely and certainly not over a fault line.
If we don't phase out nuclear power, the rest of the nation will be as dangerous as Yucca Mountain for every generation to come.
Charlie Farrell
Seattle
Let's see...nuclear waste, stored in a geologically stable region (this means no faultlines, Charlie), far from any population centers, and posing no threat to the (nonexistant) wildlife, is a bad idea, while storing the nuclear waste which ALREADY exists on site at the many nuclear power plants (the other solution) must be a good idea.
Nuclear power does have its problems (radioactive waste). However, it does not pollute the air or water, and we have enough to provide power for quite some time. France and South Korea each obtain more than 60% of their power needs from nuclear power plants. Perhaps they are actually on to something.
posted on July 13, 2002 09:05 AM
