Scare tactics

Re “Idea to ‘cage’ atomic plants is rejected,” Jan. 30

Now the anti-nuclear groups are counting on absurdity to stop nuclear power. Their idea to encase nuclear plants, already inside thick concrete and steel structures, would add nothing except to our electric bills. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has figured out that an air attack would not cause any radioactive leakage. Nuclear facilities are way ahead of others in preparing for any terrorist act. Let us put our security resources into real risks and stop trying to use scare tactics to stop a technology that is critical to our economic and environmental wellbeing.

EDWIN A. KARLOW

Riverside

The writer is a professor of physics at La Sierra University in Riverside.