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Letter: Nevada can solve nuclear challenge

Friday, March 15, 2002 | 9:10 a.m.

Scientifically, it can be done safely, but it's also political, so who knows what will happen. I applaud President Bush and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham because to do nothing is no solution and only passes the challenge to future generations.

Right now the waste is scattered across the country at over 130 locations in over 30 states. A little common sense tells me it's better to have the waste in one central location in a remote desert that is already dedicated to nuclear purposes. And that land is not going to be used for anything else, so why not make this federal project pay all of us if we are called upon to help solve this challenge.

I am one in what appears to be the slight majority because the media doesn't really cover who supports the study and the benefits that may be out there. But I'm with Mayor Oscar Goodman's comments from a couple of years ago that we should take the federal government for everything they have.

Let us back the trucks up to the Treasury and pay us if we are going to be the solution to this environmental challenge.

GEORGE GRAFTON

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