Nuclear power is unacceptable option

No way is currently known for disposing of high-level radioactive wastes safely. Until a way is found, the Public Utilities Act forbids construction of any new nuclear power plant in Illinois. Unbelievably, a move is under way in the Legislature to repeal that moratorium, and the move apparently is being fast-tracked as a minor "technical change" to the law.

It is perhaps fitting that April Fool's Day was chosen to introduce the measure. Only a fool would advocate allowing increased production of hazardous nuclear waste when we have no safe place to put what we already have. Nuclear waste is perhaps the most dangerous stuff that exists in the world, and current storage methods render it (and us) vulnerable to accident, incompetence, natural disaster and terrorist attack.