My poor letter! Cut by the editor, despite a request not to; then added to by an 11-year old! (I never mentioned Letchworth: it is not suitable for a nuclear power station because it lacks water.) Of the research reactor and power stations that Emily ment
My poor letter! Cut by the editor, despite a request not to; then added to by an 11-year old! (I never mentioned Letchworth: it is not suitable for a nuclear power station because it lacks water.)
Of the research reactor and power stations that Emily mentions (or could have mentioned), only Chernobyl has had a serious incident - an extremely serious one. Even so, the cost in human life is fewer than 60 lives over 20 years: that compares with 700,000 Russian road deaths. Moreover, extensive research has shown that radiation is immensely less dangerous than previously guessed. A vote for coal is a vote for many deaths.
Someone or something has totally misled Emily. I hope she corrects the person or thing involved, and never trusts that source again.
Without a massive nuclear reaction, we would all die quite quickly.
REX GOOCH, Berkeley, Letchworth Garden City
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