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Letters to the editor I was very disappointed to see the editorial supporting development of new or reenergized nuclear power plants (Nov. 18, 2024, page 2). Whatever happened to concerns about safely storing spent-but-still-dangerous fuel for 25,000 years? Why is this not part of the cost analysis? I grew up in the “too cheap to meter” glory days of nuclear power, but I thought we had matured in our thinking. For decades I lived too close to Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. Moreover, I visited Chernobyl in 2013 before the new sarcophagus was finished, and I also toured the abandoned city of Pryp’yat’, 150 km north of Kyiv. Our tour guide assured us that despite his Geiger counter’s screaming, it was perfectly safe as long as we did not stay long. I turned to my wife and assured her that there is no safe level of ionizing radiation. We used to