Federal hopes of es tablishing a safe storage site for US military and corporate spent fuel are dimming. Future shipments may well choose the Thousand Islands route. An even better route, should theCounty win its bid for a four-lane highway, could be the Ogdensburg bridge. And please bring us a copy. We haven't had time.
People living near nuclear facilities have the most acute anxieties of all.
Most nuclear waste is still stored on the sites which produced it. These sites are bursting at the seams. The recent spent fuel processing accident near Tokyo is bound to heighten concerns about on-site storage in both the US and Canada. That indeed is the question and, sadly, it is driving a wedge between anti-nuclear activists exactly when unity is most desperately needed. At the end of the second millennium, there simply is no answer.