Your editorial May 25, “In our view: Wasteful Approach,” mentions the defunct repository proposed for Yucca Mountain in Nevada, $12 billion in planning and a $31 billion trust fund. You failed to mention that the Yucca Mountain project was tabled when Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., ascended to the Senate presidency. Nuclear waste has been a political football and it has kept us from coming up with the best possible solution for dealing with it. Opponents of nuclear power seem to oppose the best solutions as a backhanded way of making nuclear power more unsavory.
Nuclear power creates no carbon gases, does not use oil or coal as a fuel, and is economically efficient. Going forward with the best solution for storage of waste materials may not happen as long as politics gets in the way.
Eugene Harris
WASHOUGAL