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Chip Henry Las Vegas
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In response to recent commentaries and editorials about climate change and nuclear power: Did we find a way to get rid of nuclear waste? There’s no need for Yucca Mountain or anything like it?

Seriously, how can we think nuclear is the answer when we have no solutions to the waste? We can always just ship it to another state and sweep it under the rug.

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