If state lawmakers Mike Noel, R-Kanab, and Aaron Tilton, R-Springville, believe that only "extreme environmental groups" and those with "a no-growth agenda" object to a nuclear power plant in Utah, they are not in touch with their constituents or the majority of Utahns ("Nuke plant plans face their first public challenge," Tribune, Nov. 17). Countless ordinary Utahns oppose nuclear energy and worry about our tenuous water supply. We will join ranks with any group to fight a proposed nuclear power plant in our state.

On so many levels, nuclear power is not feasible for Utah. It's not healthy, the waste is eternally toxic, and it's a terrible use of our water resources. We live in a desert.

That these men advocate for legislation that would make it easier for nuclear power plants to be built in Utah is further proof of the need for ethics reform: Our legislature has become nothing more than a forum for business people to eliminate roadblocks to their plans to line their own pockets. They serve their own interests, not their constituents'.

As a state, let's all say no to nukes.

Candace Jacobson

Provo