Miss Nevada, who was in the running for Miss USA this weekend in Las Vegas stirred up some controversy with her views of the Yucca Mtn depository of nuclear waste. Here is the Link to the story. The judges asked her what she thought of the Yucca Mtn nuclear waste site and what how she would feel if there were deaths associated with the site, and she said that Nevada would have to "take one for the team."
Wow. This site is well into construction and as you can probably imagine, in very fierce debate. I thought it was great what she said..basically it was suck it up and deal with it. I did a speech about Yucca Mtn for speech class, and from what I got out of it was that even if the toxic waste containers leaked, it would take thousands of years to make it to any water source. I'm not worried, I guess my feelings are along the same line as her's. It's gotta go somewhere...so just live with it.
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Hmm...well, if she doesn't become Miss USA, then she'll make a great one-term politician. Honesty is great, but diplomacy is what gets people elected (or, selected, as her case may be). Her anti-NIMBY perspective is a somewhat refreshing change.
I'm not terribly informed about the Yucca Mtn issue, just in passing, but my general impression with waste disposal issues of any kind is that they tend to end up in places with the least resources to fight the powers that be. For example, you don't see cell phone towers or huge garbage dumps in Malibu... and that's what upsets me.
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