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Subject: " Avoid Yucca for nuclear waste, celebrities urge " [FW]The Hamilton Spectator
News, Wednesday, June 5, 2002, p. C10
Avoid Yucca for nuclear waste, celebrities urge
The Associated Press
Washington - Actor Mike Farrell, armed with a letter signed by 70 fellow celebrities, urged senators yesterday to vote against a plan to bury U.S. nuclear power waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.Calling claims of safety for the Yucca site "technically unfounded," the former MASH star said transporting the 77,000 tonnes of waste to Nevada would create "an enormous target for someone who has an ill intention."
Farrell, who now plays a veterinarian on the NBC series Providence, delivered the letter a day before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee plans to vote on whether to override Nevada's objections to the proposed waste repository 145 kilometres northwest of Las Vegas. The full Senate must approve the resolution by July 26, or the project will come to a halt.
The House overrode Nevada's veto in May.
Co-signers of the letter include actors Alec Baldwin and Tim Robbins, comedians Paula Poundstone and Rob Reiner, and singers Barbra Streisand and Harry Belafonte.Category: News
Story type(s): News
Edition: Final
Length: Short, 136 words
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