Letter: Nuclear PR drive launched
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 | 8:43 a.m.
In case anybody has been a bit preoccupied and hasn't noticed the cheerful PR campaign starting to bubble up about how safe and cheap and environmentally friendly nuclear energy is, for the record, nuclear energy is not safe, cheap or friendly. If we quit subsidizing this industry with taxpayer money, it would very likely not be able to stay in business five more minutes.
Plus, there is that aggravating little problem of where to put all that deadly, poisonous used fuel for the next 250,000 years. It seems a lot of people think we should just sacrifice the state of Nevada -- but what about Las Vegas? Maybe those guys from Enron who got out with all their fortunes intact after screwing their employees, the state of California and the rest of the country, could just buy Las Vegas and dig the city up and move it someplace else. You could put the nuclear waste in the hole that was left, and then I am sure there wouldn't be enough people left to raise much of a fuss.
BERKELEY B. STEWART Whittier, Calif.
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