THE redefinition of words is common place these days, especially in the current political arena.

For example the word clean is defined as follows – free from dirt, unsoiled, preserving what is regarded as original state, free from obscenity.

Storing international nuclear waste deep under the Lake District, or anywhere, else is not a clean up. Nuclear waste should be stored where access is excellent at all times. How much do we charge the international community to reprocess nuclear waste in the Britain ?

For that matter how much did we charge when it was reprocessed in the Irish sea?

Is there space for all the Irish Sea containers in this proposed waste dump? How much nuclear waste on and around our shores belongs to us? Who gets the money to reprocess all the waste here? How much does nuclear waste cost per kilo per year to store? Does anyone know how much all the hidden subsidises for nuclear power amount to?

One obvious subsidy is the lack of insurance the nuclear industry has to pay. None in real terms. We, the people, underwrite this a private business.

How does that work? It's too great a risk for insurance companies to undertake. One huge hidden subsidy all the same. No other business is exempt, why?

What percentage of the medium level nuclear waste stored in Berkeley Power Station, not 1km from Lydney, is British?

Why was no one consulted here in the Forest of Dean regarding planning permission to store medium level nuclear waste so close to Lydney? Or if so, who were consulted?

Yet wind turbine initiatives get a full planning enquiry?

Nuclear power stations have a shelf life of 60 years. Nothing in real terms.

Leaving thousands of years of toxic inheritance for our grand children to deal with is selfish. No serious long term prevision exists. Madness.

Nuclear waste is not natural. It's man-made and far too hot to handle. With no true waste solution we are clearly out of our depth. We are already stuck with this creation.

Let's not create more in the name of keeping the lights on. If we continue on this path the lights will not be necessary. Sixty years of short-term energy solutions is no reason to justify poisoning the future of the earth.

Four billion years of evolution destroyed by us in no time. Economic growth blinds our ability to see. Reverence is thin on the ground.

This selfish madness has to stop with us. We are all responsible. You cannot shed your responsibility. None of us. Become responsible for your own actions. Do not leave it to governments.

Economic growth is not the brightest driver. Yet they are on the helm. Where are the wise? It's time to stand up and be counted. Change your electricity supplier to an ethical supply. True, it costs more in the short term. Long term it's a bright future with clean rivers, clean seas, clean soil, clean air. True wealth. Life.

6,000 vacancies currently exist in the Japanese Nuclear Industry. Why? No mention of Fukushima in the mainstream media, why?

Dungeness Nuclear power station is so well located it to will soon create 16,000 jobs to boost the local economy.

The River Severn has been poisoned by nuclear power for ever by the hands of a few who promised, in 1958, free electricity by the year 2000. More lies. Never accountable. Yet unable to stand on their own feet after 60 years of subsidies, with no end in sight.

Nuclear power is not sustainable in any sense of the word. Only 50 years of uranium left at current global demand, providing North Africa keeps stable enough to access it.

What will be the human cost to maintain that access?

Community wind turbines are safe, clean, transparent, manageable, low tech.

They do not raise the temperature of the planet unlike conventional power stations.

'Safe' should never be over looked. Ask the Japanese people what they think about nuclear power. The Japanese people who had to flee their homes around Fukushima are now being treated like lepers by the rest of the nation. How insignificant the destruction of the Japanese tourist industry appears today.

Fish is also not as popular as it used to be. These are serious times. Serious decisions. Let's leave our grandchildren solutions that are not dependent on advanced technolog­ies controlled by the hands of a few. The earth does not belong to us.

We are at best supposed to be guardians. The earth is also a mirror of ourselves. Chin up.

– Robin Larkham, Woolaston.