From Ingrid Eisenstadter
I read with interest the article about the “brainstorming” session sponsored by MIT and Sandia National labs last month in Washington, DC. Phil McKenna wrote that the “world’s leading experts” on using boreholes to bury nuclear waste got the idea that with this disposal method we could safely bury radioactive material all over the US (3 April, p 9).
Given that this would also require the public transport by highway and rail of nuclear waste all over the US, I have an idea, too: let’s not do that. The probability of an accident is 100 per cent.
Here in the US, depending on whose numbers you believe, we waste between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of the energy we consume. Why don’t we just stop doing that instead?
New York, US
