And yet this government is still supporting the oil, gas, coal industries and other expensive fuel options that make no sense and cannot help us.
Many studies have shown that genuine sustainable energy from wind, solar and tidal could provide all the UK’s energy needs, and these are getting cheaper by the day.
We do not need small modular reactors which produce dangerous, radioactive waste to which no solution has been found for the legacy waste.
There has also been no information on how these small nuclear reactors dotted all over the place can be protected from attacks especially by armed drones.
The uranium fuel would have to be imported which is an added problem and is also unethical as it is mainly mined on indigenous peoples lands from Canada, Namibia, the Republic of the Congo, the southern states of the USA, Kazakhstan and Australia where for years the miners and their families have suffered from the resulting severe illnesses.
This is yet another example of terrible policies that harm everyone and do not provide for our future energy needs.
All jobs associated with energy should be immediately diverted into constructing wind, solar, tidal and hydro systems.
Angie Zelter
