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Re: John Jerry editorial on Yucca Mountain
Interesting note:
"Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov. Kenny
Guinn, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged he would
approve a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain
only if it was scientifically proven to be safe and
secure. But before his first year in office was over,
President Bush changed his position and approved the
plan . . ."
I wonder what Al Gore would have done? I wonder what
John Kerry will do if elected?
--- "Scoggins, Frank S." <FSSCOGGI@SOUTHERNCO.COM>
wrote:
>
> John Kerry guest editorial on Yucca Mountain
> This is not a joke. It was in the Sunday Edition of
> the Las Vegas Review
>
> Journal. Use link below to get to page.
>
>
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/May-16-Sun-2004/opinion/2388
> 9849.html
>
> Not on my watch
>
> Candidate says Yucca a non-starter if he's elected
>
> By JOHN KERRY
> SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL
>
>
>
>
>
> One of the biggest environmental and security
> challenges facing Nevadans
> is
> the threat that Yucca Mountain will be turned into
> the nation's nuclear
> waste dump. I voted against the plan to dispose of
> waste at Yucca
> Mountain
> -- and as president I will fight against it.
>
> Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov. Kenny
> Guinn, then-candidate
> George
> W. Bush pledged he would approve a nuclear waste
> repository at Yucca
> Mountain only if it was scientifically proven to be
> safe and secure. But
>
> before his first year in office was over, President
> Bush changed his
> position and approved the plan -- placing the
> profits of the nuclear
> power
> industry above the safety of Nevada families.
>
> Today George Bush is still trying to move forward
> with this misguided
> plan,
> despite the overwhelming opposition from Nevadans
> and the scientific
> evidence that it is unsafe.
>
> Two major scientific bodies have sounded alarms
> about Yucca Mountain.
> First,
> an independent commission advising Congress on Yucca
> Mountain determined
>
> that the metal to be used for the waste containers
> would corrode,
> leaking
> nuclear radiation into the surrounding environment.
> The Bush
> administration
> knew this when it approved the Yucca Mountain site,
> but unfortunately
> ignored it.
>
> Second, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) --
> the final judge of
> whether a safe waste repository can be built at
> Yucca Mountain --
> recently
> warned the Department of Energy that its proposed
> license to build Yucca
>
> Mountain was in inadequate shape. Apparently,
> despite billions of
> dollars
> and decades of research, DOE still lacks the
> technical and scientific
> information required to even submit the license
> application for review.
> The
> department's inability to produce information
> supporting the safety of
> the
> project speaks volumes.
>
> Despite this scientific evidence, the Bush
> administration is rushing to
> meet
> an arbitrary, self-imposed deadline of December
> 2004. The risks are
> tragically clear. In January, we learned that
> workers who dug a test
> tunnel
> at Yucca were exposed to hazardous dust and mineral
> hazards. Evidence
> shows
> that the Bush administration was aware of these
> risks and the procedures
>
> required to protect them. But pressure to keep the
> project on schedule
> pushed safety into the back seat. Tragically, many
> of these workers are
> now
> sick.
>
> It's a shame that the Bush administration has put
> the financial
> interests of
> the nuclear industry above the health and safety of
> DOE workers and
> Nevadans. I believe there is a better way to secure
> Nevada's health,
> environmental and financial well-being. That
> includes putting a stop to
> the
> dump once and for all.
>
>
>
> John Kerry, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, is
> the presumptive
> Democratic
> presidential nominee.
>
>
>
>
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