Burying 'spent fuel' is a waste

I can only say "bravo" for the new stand that Sen. Bennett has taken with respect to the of spent nuclear fuel. He was quoted as saying, "It makes sense for (nuclear) waste to be stored on site and to be shipped to a reprocessing center."

I have known for many years that the proper nuclear energy program is a Complete Nuclear Energy Program. This includes reprocessing spent fuel and sending the fuel component to fuel fabrication plants to be used in fuel for breeder reactors. I have always thought it was a horrible waste of our natural resources to consider this "spent fuel" as waste and propose permanently burying it in a deep geological repository. If Utah's politicians and news media had put all the money and effort expended in the ill-advised fight to oppose the private fuel-storage license into support of the Complete Nuclear Energy Program, there would have been no reason for a temporary storage site.

Blaine N. Howard

health physicist (retired)

Hyrum