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Letter: Nuke solutions are out there

Friday, Sept. 21, 2001 | 9:15 a.m.

I've told Mayor Oscar Goodman that his approach toward Yucca Mountain is terrific. I would be glad to do anything possible in a capacity to secure the arrest of federal employees driving nuclear waste through Las Vegas. There is such thing as a citizen's arrest, isn't there?

Sen. Harry Reid is being exceptionally kind in suggesting that President Bush doesn't know how we are being treated in Las Vegas. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham's unwillingness to attend the meeting in Las Vegas was completely disgusting. We don't believe that he is honestly going to make an objective decision concerning whether or not Yucca Mountain is suitable for nuclear waste.

I tend to agree with Sen. John Ensign that transmutation is a better solution for the nuclear waste problem rather than transporting it to Yucca Mountain. Not only is it less dangerous, it sounds like from a financial point of view that it is better, too.

However, when has the Bush administration done anything logical?

ROBERT LUCIA

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