Letter: Nevada targeted from the start

Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 | 8:48 a.m.

As a concerned resident of Las Vegas since 1964, I can no longer remain quiet about the nuclear waste dump. I have very strong convictions about leaving such a legacy not only for my child, but also for the many generations to come.

I do, however, realize that our government has spent millions of our tax dollars to study this repository. In my opinion, this never has been a study site. It has been a construction site since the 1980s.

Our government has never seriously considered a different state to store this high-level waste other than Nevada.

We did not generate this waste and should not have it jammed down our throats.

I do have a solution to this problem. If these containers are so safe to transport this material in, why don't they just store the waste in these containers and keep it in their own states, where it was generated?

The members of Congress in their infinite wisdom voted on a bill back in 1982 called the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to deal with high-level nuclear waste. The state senators and congressmen should have done something about this back then.

My hat is off to Sens. Harry Reid, John Ensign, Gov. Kenny Guinn and, yes, even Mayor Oscar Goodman ... good luck gentleman in your fight.

ROBERT WICKMAN