No nuclear meltdowns.

• Author: Jones, Roger F.
• Position: READERS FORUM: VIEWS ... COMMENTS ... SUGGESTIONS - Letter to the editor

You are certainly on target with your January 2009 headline, "Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology."

However, you call the Three Mile Island incident a "meltdown." It was no such thing, it was a coolant leak. TMI had no deaths and went back onstream within a few years, while Chemobyl did cause deaths and has not been reopened because it is still radioactive. For that matter, Chernobyl had a meltdown, not an explosion, and nothing even remotely close to the predictions of additional deaths from radiation have come about.

Highly politicized groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists talk about reprocessing as leading to nuclear proliferation without the slightest evidence that this has ever happened or is even in danger of happening in those countries that have been reprocessing spent nuclear fuel...