Letter: Nuke industry dropped ball on waste foresight

Friday, March 30, 2001 | 3:31 a.m.

Admittedly I have very limited knowledge of nuclear power. What I do have is a trepidation and fear that nuclear waste will be transported here, or anywhere for that matter.

I realize this is way after the fact, but why weren't nuclear generating stations constructed to include facilities from the get-go for 100 percent self-containment, thereby eliminating the need for dangerous movement of their hazardous nuclear waste?

If the individuals responsible for planning, erecting and maintaining nuclear power plants couldn't, and didn't, come up with a completely safe, original-site disposal method, what makes anyone think they can come up with a manner in which to safely transport potentially disastrous material by truck, by rail, by whatever method?

Moving and relocating nuclear waste hundreds and thousands of miles to Nevada is inviting human error, and we'd just be biding our time before we experience the avoidable nuclear transport tragedy of lost lives.

CAROLE LAROCCA

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