And The UTEP Prospector's Mr. Aaron Martinez has the story!

"Fear and loathing in a nuclear world"

¡Adelante, Aaron!


Snippet from the original published online Wednesday, March 23, 2011.


"After the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan March 11 left several nuclear power plants critically damaged, the debate over the safety of nuclear energy has intensified.

"Early this year, President Barack Obama announced that more than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees would be used to build the first nuclear power plant in more than 30 years in the United States.

"But now after the possible meltdown in Japan, support for Obama's plan to expand our country's use of nuclear energy is in serious jeopardy.

"The main arguments against nuclear energy include safety concerns of a meltdown and the problem of nuclear waste disposal.

"The haunting memories of the nuclear meltdowns at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island are used as examples of the dangers caused by a meltdown.

"As for the actual disposal of nuclear waste, the main argument people make is that they do not want nuclear waste disposal sites in their backyards.

"So the biggest issue for the government is to find good spots to put disposal sites.

"Currently, the U.S. is working on a disposal site in licensed deep, stable geologic structures in the Yucca Mountain..."

Good points, Aaron! :)


¡Ora, UTEP!

¡Ora, MEChA!

¡Adelante, DESTINO!