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twitterLetter: Yucca’s risks outweigh benefits
Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005 | 9 a.m.
"For A Better Nevada" is an organization that does not have the courage of its convictions. If it did, its members would admit they are pro-Yucca Mountain.
How else can you negotiate for benefits, jobs and funding, unless the federal government builds this toxic dump? Its members should also admit that they realize this is about politics and political expediency and has little to do with science and the scientific suitability of Yucca Mountain as a safe and secure nuclear waste repository.
Why, after the state of Nevada has been successful in court action, would this misguided organization and its members give Congress a talking point against Nevada?
It was bad enough that we had to contend with ex-Gov. Robert List and his "benefits and jobs" spiel.
For a better Nevada and America, Yucca Mountain should be abandoned and the recent scientific panel suggestion that dry cask storage on the east and west of the Mississippi should be established. Dry cask storage has almost a 60-year safe history.
Nevadans should never trade "benefits" for ill health and safety risk.
Never throw in the towel.
FRANK PERNA
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