Comments about ‘Dew 'naive' on nuclear waste, Demo says’

Carbon sequestration is untried and unproven to be effective. Utah has already taken its turn in experimental testing and paid a very high price for it. (Nuke testing) Please don't do it again. It seems like a colossally lousy idea to pump poisonous gas into the earth.

Must we compromise the natural beauty of Utah for jobs? I'd rather they hire people to support protect and promote Utah's beauty.

And continuing simply to pump poisonous gas into the atmosphere seems like a colossally good idea?

I'll readily agree that the carbon sequestration approaches I've read about seem rife with problems, including the possibility of unpleasant side effects, but investing in research toward it strikes me as a potentially worthwhile expense.

The carbon we are discusing is not a poisonous gas, it is neccesary to support life. Trapping it in the earth is an attempt to alter global warming, it will be a total waste of money.

Unfortunately about the only reason anti-nukers give for their views is the NIMBY one (not in my back yard). In spite of having no scientific fact to back them up, they continue to have a lot of clout -- which in my view is leading to the destruction of the atmosphere, something that doesn't seem to bother them much.

What an incredibly mean-spirited title for a reporter to add to a story days before an election. Sick and wrong, even if it was a "naive" mistake. And I didn't even vote for Dew! I find it extraordinarily perturbing that a candidate can work so hard and spend so much of his own money getting out his message only to have a reporter taint people's perspective with a title to an article that shows clear bias.

Energy Solution owners can put it in their back yard. They can tell us how safe it really is...We'll see if that changes their minds about saftey....

Here's a scientific fact for you. March 28, 1978, a coolant valve stuck open in 3-Mile Island nuclear plant #2. It went unnoticed for 3 hours. The atomic furnace did what your car would do with no coolant--it superheated. It then threatened to burn through its vessel, into the groundwater, and detonate an explosion that would have spread lethal radiation over an area from Columbus, Ohio, to Boston. It took 9 hours to get it under control, and the furnace was damaged beyond repair. It has never been used since. We're just lucky we didn't pay a colossal price for a leaky valve. Build nuke plants if you want, but get your affairs in order.

I use to like John McCain until he decided he wanted to build a nuclear power plant in every neighborhood.

Nuclear energy is too dangerous. It threatens national security and destroys the environment. We have to much nuclear waste as it is. Where are you going to put more waste? The level of radioactivity don't reduce to safe levels for centuries.

If you want more nuclear power plants, why don't you go to the chernobyle

site and live for a couple of years

First, it's called a "headline," not a "title."

Second, the reporter can suggest a headline, but the reporter doesn't write it. The copy editor who lays out the page or the Web content editor who launches the story online writes it.

Third, the copy editor or Web editor writes the headline based on information in the story. The idea is to write a headline that catches the reader's eye and persuade him or her to read the story.

Fourth, this headline is accurate. Does the story say Matheson called Dew "naive"? Yes, it does. That's not biased; it's a fact.

Fifth, whether Dew spent his own money on the campaign is immaterial. He thrust himself into a political race against an incumbent Congressman who has significant bipartisan support in his district and across the state. When he flip-flops on an important issue and suggests we accept nuclear waste when so many of our family members have already been wiped out by cancer from nuclear fallout, what does he expect? Did he think he was coming to a tea party? If you or Bill Dew cannot take the heat for his incomprehensible stance, he should get out of the race.

Utahns are so ignorant about this issue. Jim Matheson is for 36 states dumping low level waste here- he is only against other countries waste coming in. Dew's position will let the state decide what if any waste we want. Jim's plan lets the federal government tell us what to do.