Letter: Welcome money if state gets nuclear waste

Tuesday, June 20, 2000 | 9:24 a.m.

We have to look to Gov. Kenny Guinn's leadership to do just that because we can't depend on Bob Loux.

Under Loux's leadership the state has received over $70 million to oversee the Yucca Mountain studies and all they have done is use the money for political science. Loux will be extremely ineffective in protecting the state because of his program's well-known lack of scientific credibility.

Just about all we hear from our elected officials is that they want science to decide the issue. Well, they might regret those words because all the science to date indicates Yucca Mountain will be found suitable and a recommendation to the president is only a year away.

I sense things may be turning around in regards to Yucca Mountain. I was impressed with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman's honest approach to Yucca Mountain, wondering aloud that if we get a repository at Yucca Mountain we better get something for it; that's leadership and vision that we've been lacking.

You have to applaud Congress for funding the state at some level so we can be involved because Yucca Mountain is the only site being studied.

REBECCA WAMSLEY