Letter: Feds alienate us over Yucca issue
Friday, April 12, 2002 | 3:54 a.m.
All you folks who believe the government, which told you in the '50s that nuclear testing was safe, and who actually believe there is a benefit of any kind to nuclear storage in Nevada, have forgotten the past. I personally have two friends whose parents died miserable deaths due to the fallout in Utah and the Test Site in Nevada.
Of course, we were all told how safe nuclear testing was. How can we as a state, knowing the lies and promises of our government better than any state, in good conscience, or sound science, allow them to do this again to any other state en route to this magic mountain?
Nevadans should worry and they should protest Yucca Mountain, an atrocity and burden being put on us. We don't even have one nuclear power plant in our state. We do not want one either because of our past experiences with radiation.
You may pay for this with your life, your families, your job, your money, and the equity in your home. One thing for sure: there will be no payments to Nevada if a dump is built here. The U.S. government is alienating us from our own country, which is meant to treat all its citizens equally. This government makes me feel like I have moved to another country, living in Nevada.
Send in your money to help this fight. This is the wrong solution for Nevada and for the rest of the people in the United States. This highly toxic radioactive trash should not be hauled through anyone's neighborhood.
SUE BRNA
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