We sent a questionnaire to state officials working on the issue, and the results showed that an overwhelming majority believe they should have additional regulatory authority
over nuclear waste storage and disposal, similar to the authority states now have over hazardous waste.
Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars
over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or
nuclear accidents or radioactive
waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.