Let Goshutes store nuclear waste

I think I'm safe in saying Dennis Kucinich isn't concerned about Utah's Goshute Indians (June 18). He decries the "history of exploitation and racism carried out towards Native Americans by the U.S. government," then proceeds to do his best to make sure they remain wards of the state living in poverty.

One would think from your article that Private Fuel Storage with the connivance of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was trying to ram the nuclear waste down the Goshutes' throat. Seems to me it was the Goshutes' idea in the first place. I think it's a good idea. Being a downwinder (Washington County 1949-1954), I'm well aware of the dangers of radiation, but the obfuscation surrounding depleted nuclear fuel rods just flat amazes me.

Let the Goshutes profit from the miserable desert wasteland we "gave" them. We should agree to the storage if the state can take possession of the material at any time. Then we should develop a way to reprocess the fissionable material instead of running around like Chicken Little. The sky isn't falling. The Goshutes can profit, and so can the rest of us.

George Hawkins

Bountiful