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Letter: Burial will ruin nuke industry

Monday, June 24, 2002 | 9:05 a.m.

Contrary to what my friends in the nuclear industry think, burial of high-level nuclear waste will be the end of commercial nuclear power.

When mankind realizes the consequences of generating the now 500,000 tons of spent fuel, there will be no expansion, only demise.

RON BOURGOIN Rocky Mount, N.C. Editor's note: The writer was the consultant to the town of Rolesville in Wake County, N.C., in 1984 when a site in that area was being considered by the Energy Department as a potential high-level radioactive waste repository.

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