Letter: Transporting nuclear waste no big deal

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001 | 9:52 a.m.

First off, drop the "ground zero" concept. They are not building a bomb at Yucca Mountain. The waste is all sealed and from what info I have run across, it would take a major act of terrorism to ever unseal it.

As for the trucks, your numbers would work out to about 10 trucks per day. I would imagine that they would run them as a convoy at three in the morning with appropriate escort. No big deal.

You make it sound like these trucks will drive up the Strip at noon with horns blaring and a sound truck announcing, "Get out of the way ... dangerous nuclear waste is coming."

Of course, the best way is not to move this waste around but to safely entomb it at the source of its generation -- probably at less total cost -- and it would encourage the entity that creates the waste to be efficient.

Still the fight goes on.

ALAN EICHLER

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