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July 8, 2005
LETTER: Haste, waste
At the meeting, with all the tap dancing going on, it was as if Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly had all been resurrected. They act like this $111 billion debacle is a done deal. I guess it's because our leader in D.C. keeps telling us how great France is doing with their nuclear power plants. What he hasn't said is that France is re-cycling their waste. Not burying it in a hole in the ground for some future generation to figure out what to do with it, hoping that in the mean time it hasn't polluted the water table for the whole southwest. They didn't want you to know that we have been shipping waste to France for re-cycling, then buying it back as fuel rods for our reactors. They didn't want to hear that we could do the same thing and create jobs for Americans. God knows we need them. (Must not be the same God that talks to George Bush.) They said that there wasn't any money for recycling, but they don't seem to have a problem building a plant to manufacture the storage casks or perhaps the railroad that they will need to transport the waste. The Department of Energy has forgotten its logo, it's not the Department of Nuclear Energy. The Pahrump Valley, with a little help from the government could be energy efficient with all the sunshine and wind. We don't need nuclear power. Oh yeah, we don't have any nukes in Nevada, just the garbage from the rest of the country. Senator Reid wants to erect wind turbine farms, the same as they have in other states. If any of you have seen the movie Sahara, the solar collecting plant in the desert could be in Pahrump. The government doesn't seem to want free energy. I remember when nuclear energy was going to be so cheap it would solve the problems for the whole nation. The only thing that was solved was how to make politicians rich on oil. RICHARD A. BROWN Editor's note: The meeting was advertised in the Pahrump Valley Times. |
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