Those who oppose the continuation of nuclear power in our energy supply need to face the facts.

To keep the lights on we need continuous high capacity power sources. Wind and solar power can't fill the gap.

Without nuclear power we would have to go back to burning coal in our power stations, as Germany is doing. (Natural gas won't last long enough to solve our supply needs.) That country is putting millions more tons of carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere as a result of their policy change, worsening the global warming problem.

Around the world, over 5,000 people die every year in coal mining accidents. Many times more people are affected by the health problems caused by working in mines and by breathing the particulates that coal power stations produce. Forest of Dean people know about that.

The International Energy Agency calculates that, including the Chernobyl accident, the number of deaths per unit of power is 30 times more for coal than it is for nuclear power.

You may not like nuclear power, but the alternative is worse for workers' lives, worse for our health, and worse for the planet.

At some point in the future there may be another alternative. Wait a minute, perhaps we could use less energy...? Oh no, we have to produce and consume more to achieve economic "growth" of course.

– David Kennedy, Ellwood.