Letters: No liquid nuclear waste on S.C. highways

When it comes to nuclear waste, my cliche of choice is “better safe than sorry. That should be the approach before Canadian trucks full of liquid radioactive waste roll down the highways from Canada to the Savannah River Site. The H-canyon at SRS has already been retrofitted to accept the waste, suggesting that someone has picked a different cliche: “Act first, and ask forgiveness later.”

The Canadian spent nuclear fuel is like the waste that caused the meltdown in Chernobyl and Fukushima. It has been dissolved in nitric acid, thus converted to liquid form. Canada has offered the United States $60 million to accept it, which no doubt seems like a good idea to the companies involved.

But are we really so hard up for dollars that we would accept more nuclear waste? Particularly in liquid form? The thought of a traffic accident with that cargo is too much to bear. Let’s back up Gov. Nikki Haley, who vows that South Carolina will not be a nuclear dumping ground.