IN last weeks' Review, ST. Anderson who, before he retired was employed in the nuclear industry for over 30 years, says that he never met anyone involved with that industry who was opposed to it. This is hardly surprising since it was their means of employment and is now the provider of their pensions.

What other people find wrong with nuclear power was demonstrated in Japan earlier this year. Nor was this the first time dangerous radioactive contamination fouled the atmosphere, whether Mr Anderson refers to it as an explosion or not. In the USA there was a similar disaster at Five Mile Island. Chernobyl in the Ukraine was another, and of course, in England there was Windscale which, presumably because of their incompetence which caused a blow-out, changed its name to Sellafield.

It was said that as a direct result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, North Wales and large areas of the Ukraine became contaminated from the Chernoblyl fall-out. Why should nuclear radiation from the Ukraine miss everywhere else and contaminate North Wales? Is it not far more likely that Chernobyl was blamed as a government cover-up to conceal from the public yet another blow-out from?Sellafield occurring at the same time? Any nuclear release from Sellafield is far more likely to cover North Wales than one from Chernobyl.

As for other countries not having sufficient hours of daylight in the winter to make solar power a viable proposition, I was referring to England, not to other countries. As for nuclear waste, no nuclear power stations should be permitted until the problem of disposing of waste has been solved.

In reply to David Norman's letter in the same edition of the Review, I may have missed his point as he says, but he certainly missed mine, which stated from the outset: "when solar system is perfected." I was not referring to the present situation, I was referring to the future, and the ideal state in which we will find ourselves, from the point of view of the customer, not the scientist. If each home produced its own electricity, we would not need electricity companies, nor their transmission lines, and because everything would be electric we would not need gas companies either.

We would also be rid of the ever increasing fuel bills from these companies. Solar power, when it is perfected, will be the ideal source of energy to accomplish this. That is why I said our scientists should be working towards perfecting the system. Perhaps before he retired, Mr Norman was employed by a utility company from whom he now receives his pension and doesn't like to say anything against them. However, for the rest of us, the sooner we are rid of these companies the better.

– Anthony Reeve, Oak Way, Littledean.