AUSTRIA has called for European nuclear power plants to face stress tests to reassure people worried by the crisis in Japan, while Britain and France have urged calm.

WELL done to Patrick O’Brien (Letters, April 5) for clearly stating the compelling case to consider nuclear power for Ireland.

IN his opinion piece ‘World takes the nuclear options while we turn our faces to the wind’, Matt Cooper says I have ‘conditioned’ the Irish people to the dangers of nuclear power (March 28).

MATT COOPER is to be congratulated on his excellent column (March 28) on why Ireland will not be going nuclear.

I REFER to Conor Kane and Veronica McDermott’s articles (October 8) in which they highlighted the results of new research, confirming fears that radioactive debris from the Windscale (now known as Sellafield) fire in 1957 may be twice as much as originally thought.

A WATERFORD-BASED charity which has spent 10 years helping children in a part of Belarus affected by the Chernobyl accident is preparing to send a group of up to 70 professionals to help renovate an orphanage.

YOUR editorial (Irish Examiner, February 21) called for an investigation of the health effects of the 1957 Windscale (Sellafield) fire, and the allegation that a cluster of Down Syndrome cases in Dundalk were linked to it.

World experts will debate whether nuclear power could ever be an option for powering industry at a conference in Dublin today.

Ireland’s emergency services are primed and ready for a nuclear disaster, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil today.

Ukraine today opened a week of commemorations 20 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, as international radiation and health experts gathered for a three-day conference to discuss the lessons of the Chernobyl accident.

A terrorist strike on the Sellafield nuclear plant could cause a catastrophe far worse than the Chernobyl disaster, the SDLP annual conference heard today.