To the editor:
Thank you for publishing James McCarthy’s May 23 report titled “Court orders feds to pay Maine Yankee.”
We read that radioactive waste stored on our coast cannot go to Yucca Mountain because of “political pressure.”
That’s true, but not entirely. There have been pro-nuke scientists with concerns about leaks there.
What is more, there’s not enough room for all the waste, which must be kept away from life for thousands of years.
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What shall we do? Put it on a train? To where?
At age 82, I remember my Farmington high school teacher’s admonishment: “Never ask the obvious.”
Stop making it!
Maria Holt
Bath
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