NRC News 8/20/2018

Leading Stories

Record for storing, shipping nuclear fuel is perfect

Michael Hays, Las Crices Sun News, August 10, 2018
A proposal to transport commercial spent fuel from nuclear power plants in other states and store it in a new waste repository in southeastern New Mexico has opposition from progressives, environmentalists and anti-nuclear groups. They are exploiting the public’s fear of radioactivity. Yet the public has little to fear. The record is perfect: since 1957, no injury, disease or death to the public, or damage to the environment from transporting and storing commercial spent fuel.
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/08/10/record-storing-shipping-nuclear-fuel-perfect/963320002/