He’d Dump Atom Waste Abroad
Paul Laxalt suggested Saturday that the United States might find a way to avoid political problems at home by locating a high-level nuclear waste dump in a willing undeveloped country.
Laxalt, a Republican presidential aspirant, is a former senator from Nevada, a state on the federal list of proposed nuclear waste sites. Laxalt said that Americans are “frightened to death” of nuclear materials, making waste disposal dumps in this country “a problem of political unacceptability.”
The same fears may not be evident in Third World countries, Laxalt said at a campaign press conference. Moreover, the United States would pay handsomely to get rid of the long-term problem.
“It seems to me that some Third World country would really have a financial bonanza in storing high-level nuclear waste under proper geological conditions there,” Laxalt said.
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