Letter: Where was 'science' before?

Monday, July 17, 2000 | 9:09 a.m.

I wonder on what basis Yucca Mountain was selected to be studied as a potential disposal site? If the answer was science, then couldn't that same "science" have been used to select the site?

RON BOURGOIN

Rocky Mount, N.C.

Editor's note: The writer, a physicist with working experience in accelerators and radiation, was the consultant to the Town of Rolesville in Wake County, N.C., in 1984 when the Rolesville Pluton was being considered by the Department of Energy as a potential high-level radioactive waste repository.