Letter: Roads not made for nuke waste

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2001 | 10:24 a.m.

What struck me after reading their letters was the possibility of 220-foot heavy-haul trucks, carrying 100-ton shipping casks filled with high-level radioactive wastes, tearing up Nevada's roads.

When the roads were constructed, no one ever imagined that loads of that sort would ever travel over them. When I reviewed the DOE's Environmental Impact Study, I saw nothing that said anything about the DOE repairing the roads that would be damaged as a result of waste being and having been transported over them.

RON BOURGOIN Rocky Mount, N.C.

Editor's note: The writer, a physicist, was the consultant to the Town of Rolesville in Wake County, N.C., in 1984 when the Rolesville Pluton was being considered by the Department of Energy as a potential high-level radioactive waste repository.

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