YUCCA FACTS

Responding to a recent column I wrote for the Nevada Appeal, Lynn Muzzy of Minden, Nevada, had the following letter-to-the-editor published in the paper today…

Commenting on Chuck Muth’s defense of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository, consider that the whole nuclear waste issue is unique to the United States.

William Tucker is a syndicated columnist and expert in this field. He has pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on Fox Business Channel, and elsewhere that Jimmy Carter got a law passed in the ‘70’s preventing nuclear material recycling. He feared terrorists would somehow steal the waste to make bombs. He worried about thieves cracking Fort Knox and killer rabbits, too.

France has safely generated the vast majority of its power from nukes, the waste from which is stored in a room size vault. That’s because even some of the “waste” after recycling can be used in industry or medicine, which doesn’t leave much to get hysterical about.

I support Mr. Muth’s idea, but it would make as much sense to get rid of Jimmy Carter’s misguided law as it would be to ship boxcars of waste to Yucca Mountain. Then we’d get to see if the Greens are really serious about seeking out alternative forms of energy.