Utah's Republican leaders are all in EnergySolutions' pockets, and vice versa. No doubt the presumptive Republican presidential candidate assured Creamer that all national and international nuclear waste may reside forever in Utah, the one state foolish and greedy enough to sell its birthright for this blight upon this good earth and upon the children of its children's children, for a million half-life years.

McCain is perhaps the nation's premier proponent of nuclear power, as long as the nuclear waste ends up in Utah, not Arizona. McCain isn't stupid. Old, but not stupid.

But how about us Utahns? Why do we vote Republican, even though a huge majority do not support storing nuclear waste here? We do not, yet, even use nuclear power. We just permit its ticking away in our backyard from one generation through eternity.

There are other alternatives besides the difficult choice between carbon and nuclear fuels.

Ed Firmage

Salt Lake City