Thursday, May 29, 2003 | 8:38 a.m.
The May 22 story, "Nuke power big help to campaigns," explains the wrongheaded energy policy that promotes building five new nuclear reactors to produce electricity. Making it worse are the guaranteed loans by the American people.
Nuclear power is essential to produce 20 percent of the electricity we use, but in the future it should be supplanted by solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and clean-coal technology.
The Achilles' heel of nuclear power is the toxic waste. Also, nuclear power is not safe as was demonstrated by Three Mile Island in 1979, and it costs more than gas, oil and coal.
We know that politics, not science, has a lot to do with policies toward the nuclear power industry, including Yucca Mountain. We must now add payoffs to politicians, both Democrats and Republicans.
FRANK PERNA
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