Legislators need science tip

Let me see if I have this right. Our state would have given a $700,000 incentive to a company to build a beryllium-processing plant in Utah. When humans breathe only minute amounts of beryllium-containing compounds, they run the risk of developing berylliosis, a deadly lung disease. Yet we turn away a facility that would store, in a remote location, low-level radioactive waste that would have no environmental impact. And companies would pay us for the opportunity to store that waste here.

Jon Titus

Herriman