Editor

Nuclear power comes at an unacceptable cost, so I don’t welcome its possible return at Trawsfyndd (Cambrian News, Meirionnydd edition, 23 January).

The cost is both financial and environmental. It comes in at £1.8 billion per station plus the costs of decommissioning over many years.

Safe renewables like solar and wind have come down in cost in recent years, making them the cheaper options. They are also the environmentally safe ones.

The long radioactive life of plutonium means that accident and leakage can never be ruled out.

Jobs matter and more jobs could be created if any one of the Green ‘New Deals’ proposed by the Green, Labour or Liberal parties were to be implemented. The cavernous interiors of Trawsfyndd are large enough for wind turbine manufacturing.

Alternatively, the proximity of Blaenau Ffestiniog could be utilised, with the site manufacturing products from slate waste.

It is old-fashioned thnking to go for nuclear when the technology of wind, sun, wave and water has advanced so fast in recent years. In Wales, we have such an abundance of each of these elements (yes, even sunshine along the coasts) that not to use them is a shocking waste. Carefully combined, as in the ‘Electric Mountain’ near Llandudno, they answer to the requirements for all-year round power.

Quentin Deakin Corbett Avenue, Tywyn

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