[Governor Dinwiddie]

Exactly. How stupid can these people be? Buried under millions of tons of rock is about as safe as you can expect to be on this planet.
 

[17th Miss Regt]

Buried under millions of tons of rock is about as safe as you can expect to be on this planet.

But what if a gopher burrows into the mountain and gets exposed to all that radiation? And then crawls out and dropping radioactive gopher pellets everywhere. THAT is why it is not safe!

Or maybe we will be dealing afterwards with a 200 foot tall gopher with various super powers.