Letters to the Editor
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No leaks? RIIIIGHT
I live in WA state, where the attempted clean up of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been going on for decades and is failing.
Billions of dollars have been spent and we still have radioactive waste leaking into the basalt around Hanford and eventually into the Columbia river. On top of this, over the lifetime of the plant, so much energy is used to build maintain and decomission the power plants that they barely yeild net energy. There's no free lunch.
Want to spend government money on energy AND defense? Let's GIVE $45 billion in defense money toward putting solar collectors on every roof in the US and training the corp of engineers to do the installs as well as boosting an industry that would employ hundreds of thousands of people for decades.
Why not do this? Because our current government would rather spend the money killing Iragis.