FLASHPOINT for Aug 03, 2006

Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006 | 7:59 a.m.

I have long lost my ability to get outraged about Yucca Mountain. The Screw Nevada Bill said it best 20 years ago and not much has changed. But what amazes me to this day is the brazenness of officials in states with nuclear waste. Take New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch. The Boston Globe reports that he sent a letter to Sen. Pete Domenici saying on-site waste storage at a couple of his state's power plants "is wrong for the health and safety of the citizens of New Hampshire." And, Lynch added, the choice has been made to send it to Nevada. Does the governor not see the disconnect? It's unsafe for his people but it's just fine to send it to Nevada? Or, perhaps like so many before him, he simply doesn't care.

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