EDF buys British Nuclear

No one want a nuclear power station built on their doorstep - although I suspect that some of the people in the remoter parts of the country like North Wales would be glad to get the employment that such stations provide - Wyfla in Anglesea is due to close soon and I guess that that would not help in such a poor area - but I consider them to be, using Lord Lister's phrase about the spraying of Carbolic Acid [phenol] in the operating theatre, "a necessary evil incurred to attain a greater good."

The French have had over the years a safe, productive nuclear industry that provides about 80% of France's electricty. So we have a choice here:

• get the technology to build clean-burning coal stations right
• or build nuclear stations from people who know how to
• continue to import our energy

Britain is horribly exposed to - for want of a better word - blackmail since our energy is now so much imported and makes us very vulnerable.

I don't like nuclear 100% - memories of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island come to mind but I fear that we have no choice - both from a political and environmental point-of-view.