It is tomorrow’s adults who will pay for today’s mistakes

In support of Hermes Solomon, Sunday Mail, July19 article, ‘Surely we are not so stupid’ might I mention a BBC World Service news report about nuclear power stations broadcast early in July? I suggest that Hermes Solomon was relaying information given in that broadcast and little else. Rather than suggesting doom and gloom he was highlighting opposing arguments both for and against nuclear power.

Whether we need even one nuclear power station, never mind the 15,000 mentioned in the BBC report is not in question – alternatives are! Cost is of little significance when one of them blows up.

The fact that the Three Mile and Chernobyl accidents happened at all is what matters, not whether nuclear waste fell on Ireland or Iceland. When Greece dallies to install (Greeks take dim of view of solar energy, August 2 Sunday Mail) the country’s biggest solar energy project on a hillside in the Peloponnese and instead burns lignite, are we to assume that pollution is preferable? When will supporters of nuclear energy realise that it is tomorrow’s adults who will pay for today’s mistakes.

I am fourteen years old and hope to live to 100. Unless there is a radical change in the way we produce and consume energy, my chances are slim. If a respected physicist, Dr Uberschell says we already possess the technology to eliminate nuclear, what are we waiting for, money? Fission or fusion, who cares? Solar, wind and wave are the ways forward. All we need is the will…
 
 
Lin from Nicosia

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