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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION Sunday, April 7, 2002 Families Deserve More Protection Than Nuclear Power Industry BY DARIO HERRERA As a Ne dan an as chair man of the Clark Cow Com missionin southern Ne profoundly d se with the Bush admini m's plan to transport the nation’s highlevel nuclear waste across the country to be stored at Yuc Mountain, 4%) miles from fastest-grow C But the ¢ for at risk and cause severe eco will begin every morningfor 40 estimates do not even include fuel is spent. A video recently* by Nevada Conj approval to a nomic strain on already ex years and each will travel an anyfuture ang from active released woman Shelley Berkleyproves ' t with scien haustedlocal andstate budgets. averageof 2,000 miles along in- nuclear react While therewill beat times that waste is far more vulnera terstate highways, through size of Alaska so There are four cor ble toa terrorist attack while ive wast n be sons that the Yucca Mo untain newly developed suburbs, past hundreds of these mobile ter the country. A Project should not be approved densely populated urbanareas, rorist targets spread around being transported than it is answer i moreappropriat answer is to immediately shore up the se curity a xisting reactor sites the current waste to protect storage facilities, whereit has been noted there is enough space to store another 100 years worth of spent nuclear fuel, Mount. ain Project athreat to S while aggress new processin ing inigleeies transmutation, a nu- lear processing methodthat is able alternative to long ional approval of Yucca Mow r ain Project ea ofhigh: aste across the country wii i} onutit the health and safety of millions of Americans based on transportation con cerns alone: a! The transportation of high-ievel nuclear waste does not simplify national security concernsnorprevent the threat ofa terrorist attack on nuclear reactors or on-site waste stor: agefacilities. Instead, it radi cally magnifies the threat of a bynational landmarks, along sidefertile farmland a vital rural communities. a stone’s throw fro! saan: churches and the back yards of millions of Americans. These the country, active nuclear re- actors will remain terrorist targets and will still continue to produce waste that will need to be stored on-site due to the metric tons of existing high- level nuclear waste. This means about seven shipments See DISASTER,Page AA? cooling process necessaryafter First 19 Customers that brio; thisfellpage, willreceive f a ree EBCT-Shirt! The biggest Computer Dealerin the State of Utah..! terrorist attack and compli cates homeland security de Saae More than 100,000 truckloads and trainloads of highly radioactive waste will travel through 43 states for 40 years just to dump the T1900 while being stored on-site. 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