AZ State Senator: Send used nuclear fuel rods here
PHOENIX — State Sen. Al Melvin admits that not everyone thinks having a nuclear waste processing plant and burial site in Arizona is a great idea.
So the Republican from Tucson’s far-north suburbs has a sweetener he believes will get some people to change their minds: Money.
He is proposing to make Arizona as the place where all the nuclear plants in the country send their spent nuclear fuel rods. Melvin, a long-time proponent of nuclear energy, said the failure of the federal government to set up a planned high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada creates an opportunity for Arizona.
