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Blue Ribbon nuclear waste commission has the power to not make things worse

Not making things worse would be a reasonable, responsible accomplishment for the “Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future”,…A nuclear “time out” -until technical problems are solved- is far preferable to an unaffordable, unsustainable and irrational “try it all over again” recommendation – one blind to the history of the proven negative consequences.

A blue-ribbon, “nuclear” bus ride Mountain Xpress,Ned Ryan Doyle, 21 Jan 2011 “….The members of the President’s Commission are talented, intelligent people handed a lofty mandate to address these problems. It’s unreasonable, however, to think they could really solve these intractable problems with policy recommendations, due in draft form July of 2011, especially when most of the proposals are from the industry and interests that profit from these ongoing problems.

But, they do have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to NOT make our problems even worse. Not making things worse would be a reasonable, responsible accomplishment for the “Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future”, and for citizens and taxpayers, especially in WNC and the Southeast region.

Speaking for myself, and I believe a majority of the WNC Citizens Delegation who traveled to Augusta with me, I encourage the Blue Ribbon Commissioners to make a rational, cost effective and morally justifiable decision to recommend a nuclear “time out” to President Obama. Please don’t expand the military industrial nuclear complex because we can’t afford it, please weigh the price we’ve already paid and please consider the untold generations to come who face their own uncertain ‘nuclear future’ due to our current legacy of radioactive waste.

A nuclear “time out” -until technical problems are solved- is far preferable to an unaffordable, unsustainable and irrational “try it all over again” recommendation – one blind to the history of the proven negative consequences.

A blue-ribbon, “nuclear” bus ride | Blogwire | Mountain Xpress

January 21, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes