Taking Iodine-131 for the Team

The reigning Miss Nevada, Crystal Wosik has taken a very interesting standpoint for her state. She is completely in favor of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, calling it the "best-built facility in the country." Which is a really odd way to put it, in my opinion. It makes me think that perhaps she wasn't quite prepared to discuss her opinions on nuclear energy. What makes me sure that she wasn't thinking was her response to "What if people die?": Crystal said, "We just have to take one for the team."

Crystal's mother proved herself equally brilliant when she said: "It's a tragedy that we have nuclear waste, but it's got to go somewhere." So it might as well be transported from all over the country and placed in a mountain 100 miles from a major U.S. City? And am I the only one who thinks that the entire Yucca Mountain operation is a Heinlen novel just waiting to happen?

I could go on for days about how irresponsible and ignorant Wosiks statement was, but I think Citizen Alert's Peggy Maze Johnson put it beautifully: "Before she gets up there and starts representing the state of Nevada, she needs to find out more about what the issues are. Instead, she's shooting from the hip with a ridiculous statement that feeds into many people's idea that Miss America contestants are bimbos".