Letter: Let’s get paid for being stuck with nuke waste

Monday, Feb. 25, 2002 | 8:47 a.m.

I sometimes think the worst thing that mankind did was to embrace the Industrial Revolution. When I lived on my grandmother's farm many years ago, she knew what to do with cow, chicken and pig waste.

Today we are up to our eyeballs with nuclear and politicians' waste. The big mistake was building the first nuclear plant. There sure was some shortsightedness back then. We can expect more plants to be built in the future.

Anyone with half a brain knows that nuclear waste must be stored in one place. Not many places. Sorry, folks. Tag, we're it.

Let's get some real good concessions from the federal government. Like lots and lots of money -- forget the patriotism. As far as fighting them in court, forget it. Why spend millions on lawyers, only to lose in the end?

JOHN TOMINSKY

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