Citizens of the West would be well advised to remember the Hanford, Washington, nuclear waste products disaster (“No Easy Fix for our Nuclear Past,” December 2018). Wind power and the rapid improvement in battery technology seem a far better match for the future electrical needs of Wyoming and the West (“New nuclear,” December 2021). One could employ a lot of workers to build wind farms for the cost of storing nuclear waste forever.
Robert Brayden
Golden, Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Letter: Remember the past.
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