U.S. Decides One Nuclear Dump Is Enough

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/washington/07yucca.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=yucca&st=cse&oref=slogin

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:10 AM
Subject: U.S. Decides One Nuclear Dump Is Enough
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To the Editor:

   In 1987, Congress determined that nuclear power couldn't be responsibly developed in this country by private concerns alone. It determined that three sites should be studied for a national repository of nuclear waste that would be safe for thousands of years. Now our lame-duck administration wants to cut off the study phase and declare the geology of Yucca Mountain appropriate by decree, ending the consideration of other sites that may be safer and that will be needed for waste in the near future anyway.

Maybe it should spare us the tension and declare victory in the war on cancer at the same time.

Barry Levine

To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   In 1987, Congress determined that nuclear power couldn't be responsibly developed in this country by private concerns alone. It determined that three sites should be studied for a national repository of nuclear waste that would be safe for thousands of years. Now our lame-duck administration wants to cut off the study phase and declare the geology of Yucca Mountain appropriate by decree, ending the consideration of other sites that may be safer and that will be needed for waste in the near future anyway.

Maybe it should spare us the tension and declare victory in the war on cancer at the same time.

Barry Levine