Doctors want nuclear option off the agenda

I WISH to congratulate you for publishing the excellent letter from Derry Chambers on the nuclear power industry (Irish Examiner, January 22).

Hopefully, it will stimulate badly needed national and even international debate. The Irish Doctors Environmental Association, along with the International Society of Doctors for the Environment and the International Physicians against Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize winners), representing more than 200,000 doctors and medical students around the world, have comprehensively rejected nuclear energy as an option.

We call on all governments and relevant authorities to cease construction of new nuclear power facilities and to decommission all existing plants for sound health, social and economic reasons.