Future Dim for Nuclear Waste Repository

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/science/earth/06yucca.html?ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Subject: re: Future Dim for Nuclear Waste Repository
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    Fission may yet be the indispensable power-generating technology for the foreseeable future, but any comparison of costs must include a full accounting. For fission, that means putting a real cost on the long-term storage of radioactive wastes, just as for coal that includes the cost of dumping CO2 into the atmosphere and the destruction of streams by mining. These matters are too grave to leave to the politicians. Nuclear fission is not merely the province of Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and coal power is not merely the province of Robert Byrd (D-W.Virginia) They are matters of grave importance to the nation and to the planet.

Barry Levine