Even if Yankee was closed down tomorrow -- the job of maintaining a
livable environment in Windham County, northern Massachusetts and
southwestern New Hampshire will have just begun. Preventing radioactive
leakage from Yankee is an inter-generational project that we stand at
the very beginning of.
We've already failed to restrict radioactive leakage at Vermont Yankee
only a few decades into this millennia-long project. No recycling
method for radioactive waste exists and to wager we will develop such a
method is to gamble the fate of our children and their children.
One thing is certain: With an array of renewable energies such as
biomass, wind, sun, methane, and hydro available, our children will
wonder why their ancestors, who put a man on the moon, could not have
produced their electricity without handing down to them an
inter-generational legacy of toxic waste.
As a notable physicist once remarked -- "nuclear power is great -- and
we already have the best atomic power plant possible; luckily it's
located 93 million miles away and is called the sun."
Ben Falk
Moretown
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