Letter: Nuclear waste could be target

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002 | 8:24 a.m.

So, now the government has decided to bury all that nuclear crap here at Yucca Mountain. Let's think back to Sept. 11. The most tragic thing that has happened to us in my life time ... and to most of us. Now I rather imagine that Osama bin Laden chose that particular place so that he could kill as many of us as he could in as short a time as possible.

Now, let's stop and think if Yucca Mountain has all of our atomic waste buried under it, just where do you think they (or anyone else) are going to aim at the next time? I can't imagine that anyone would actually believe that sooner or later another bin Laden-type wouldn't try to do better than the World Trade Center ... and go after Yucca Mountain. And if they manage to get better bombs or whatever they use, somebody had better start thinking just what the death toll would be on that.

Can you imagine just how far and deadly that radiation would be? It wouldn't just be us in Nevada, it would go farther than your imagination could ever take you. For God's sake, and all of ours, they had better start thinking about not burying all of that in one place.

PAT KELLY