NIMBY for Nevada residents

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

	NIMBY seems to be a dominant issue for Nevada with regard to Yucca

Mountain Repository. They fear that residents living there thousands of

years from now will be subjected to leakage of radioactivity.

	Does anyone consider the question: what is the probability for the

progeny of a present Nevada resident living in Nevada 5000 years from

now?and what is the probability for the progeny of a present Pennsylvania

resident living in Nevada 5000 years from now? Judging by history, or

judging by current migration trends, these two probabilities would both be

very small and approximately the same. How, then, can Nevadans say it is

unjust for waste generated in the East to be buried in Nevada?



Bernard L. Cohen

Physics Dept.

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Tel: (412)624-9245

Fax: (412)624-9163

e-mail: blc@pitt.edu





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