To Whom It May Concern:
I read with interest your recent article on FutureGen (”Turning Black Coal Green,” February 2007, p.27). I found it interesting that you believe that there is no alternative to continued burning of coal—especially at a time where utilities are considering building over 30 nuclear power plants, similar to the number of FutureGen-style IGCC plants on the drawing board. It is doubly interesting that coal ash—slightly radioactive itself—can simply be buried along with millions of tons of gases, while we are always told that waste from nuclear power plants is an intractable problem. Before digging ourselves deeper into the fossil fuel hole, we should at least recycle and fully use the 500 years’ worth of unused uranium and plutonium currently branded as “waste” and sitting in underwater racks at America’s nuclear power plants.
-Stewart Peterson
Nuclear is Our Future
This page was written by Stewart Peterson on May 28, 2009
