Anti-nuclear mindset is costing us dearly

RENOWNED physicist Philip Walton (Letters, June 18) extolled the virtues of nuclear energy and lamented the negative attitude prevalent in Ireland towards its adoption as an alternative to unreliable fossil sources — oil and gas.

James Lovelock, the erstwhile head of the Gaia movement and one-time anti-nuclear proponent, has now come full circle and is advocating the upgrade and building of nuclear power plants in Britain.

Nuclear power generation is an inherently safe process with a well-established safety record apart from the Three Mile Island incident which was contained and led to no deaths, injuries or radiation contamination.