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Dixie Lee Ray's credentials are every bit as good as the sources Green Peace, the Sierra Club, etc use. As for the Govenor, I would not care if he claimed he was conservative or liberal, political grandstanding is still grandstanding. Calling out State Troopers in this instance is a ridiculous ploy. As for the plutonium, I would have no problem with the stuff being transported to a nuclear recycling place that I lived next door to. In fact, I would gladly live within spitting distance of a nuclear power plant. However, I certainly would not say the same for a coal or fuel oil power plant.

You didn't address any of the substance of my remarks. So you feel that the feds have the right to foist this off on any locale, regardless of the wishes of the locals? As far as your stand on plutonium transport, I think your'e going to real lonely on that one. Lets put it all in the basement of the White House then. Saying that Dixie's sources are as good as Greenpeaces is very faint praise indeed. Her problem is that she didn't source, or footnote her many claims. She made a number of claims in that book that were immediately shown to be false. The book is frankly a piece of crap, that felt good at the time, but I don't think you'll find anyone running for office from any party saying that pesticides and plutonium are really harmless, except in overwhelming amounts, as she did. She also of course said that there was no change in climate taking place. This just came out, and as I have worked in Alaska on and off for over 30 years,there is nothing in this article I can disagree with. The melting of Alaska

I would gladly live within spitting distance of a nuclear power plant. However, I certainly would not say the same for a coal or fuel oil power plant.

As you probably know, coal-fired plants emit more radiation in normal operation than nuclear plants (radon).