Nuclear power part of the answer

IN his letter headlined ‘Nuclear energy not worth the risk’ (September 22), Dr Philip Michael has many contentious arguments to make against nuclear power that need to be answered, although too many to tackle here.

To begin with, he repeats the very modern myth that there is not enough uranium to sustain the nuclear energy industry into the future.

He says that “supplies of high grade uranium (which is the only type currently worth mining) will be exhausted in about 80 years”.