Letter: Waste to travel across heartland

Monday, March 4, 2002 | 9:03 a.m.

Yucca Mountain in Nevada is 250 miles from the Pacific Ocean, yet most of the nuclear waste in this country is within 250 miles of the Atlantic Ocean.

The great minds of our government have decided that we should take this incredibly dangerous waste and transport it over the nation's highways and rails across the heartland of America and through the major cities of this country because of the threat of terrorism.

The president should realize that he is unleashing, in his attempt to unload the spent fuel from the nuclear power plants in the East, 100,000 ticking time bombs on axles of evil to threaten the very security of our homeland.

PAUL MASER Carson City

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