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From the NY Times: Nuclear Road to Nevada
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
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Nuclear Road to Nevada
April 28, 2002
To the Editor:
Re "Nuclear Waste on the Highways" (editorial, April 21):
Let the country be forewarned: what awaits is a potential
nightmare if we allow the Energy Department and the nuclear
power industry to ship high-level nuclear waste to Yucca
Mountain.
Over a 30-year period, we can expect and make emergency
preparations for several hundred accidents in any of 43
states, at a cost to local and state governments of
billions of dollars.
Worse yet, what if there is a terrorist strike? Our worst
nuclear nightmares would be realized, creating an American
Chernobyl.
A disaster could affect an area of about 40 square miles
with contamination. Many would die. A local economy would
be shattered. Cleanup in an urban area could cost $2
billion. Is it really worth it?
OSCAR B. GOODMAN
Mayor
Las Vegas, April 25, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/opinion/L28YUCC.html?ex=1021114611&ei=1&en
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Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company
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