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New Mexico will take the jobs
Nashville Tennessean, Tuesday, 2/18/03
If an international energy consortium decides not to build a uranium
enrichment plant in Middle Tennessee, New Mexico is waiting in the wings for
a chance to land the $1.1 billion facility.
U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and chairman of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee, has urged Louisiana Energy Services to take
another look at two areas in the southeastern corner of his state.
''I've heard that your selected site in Tennessee may be encountering
unanticipated challenges,'' Domenici wrote last week to George Dials, LES'
president and chief executive officer.
''Your search team evaluated a single site in the Carlsbad area, and I
understand that it was not your first choice,'' Domenici wrote. Other sites
''could have been proposed,'' he continued, adding, ''I welcome your
interest in re-exploring other candidate sites if your progress in Tennessee
is stymied.''
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By "unanticipated challenges", he means of course the usual opposition that
has occurred regarding anything nuclear being sited in a new location. I
shared some weeks ago the editorial cartoon about local NIMBY reactions.
Tennessee is losing significant employers for other reasons, related to its
tax policies (not to be discussed here), this may be just one more.
Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
1161 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232-2675
Phone (615) 343-0068
Fax (615) 322-3764
Pager (615) 835-5153
e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
internet www.doseinfo-radar.com
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