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twitterLetter: Guinn deserves blame for dump if it ever opens
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004 | 9:52 a.m.
It is perfectly understandable that President Bush decided to send the nation's nuclear waste to Nevada; he figured he could do the nuclear power industry's bidding and pay very little politically for doing so.
What I can't understand is how Gov. Kenny Guinn could have supported President Bush's re-election campaign when he knew what the president intended to do to Nevada. Administrations will come and go but the threat of the Yucca Mountain dump will be here forever.
Within hours of the 9/11 attacks on the East Coast, thousands of Las Vegas workers were laid off. Can you imagine the effect if Las Vegas and the words "nuclear disaster" ever appear together in headlines around the world? Our governor ignored this threat.
If Yucca Mountain indeed opens as Bush intends, I propose that it be renamed "The George W. Bush/Kenny Guinn National Nuclear Waste Repository."
EDWARD MUNGARAY
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