Going nuclear

IN recent weeks a number of editorials, articles and letters have been published in newspapers, including the Irish Examiner, on the nuclear debate.

Most recommended an informed approach to the nuclear option and many actually advocated nuclear power for Ireland.

At the same time, official spokespersons for the Government and its advisers keep telling us that the population is against nuclear power.

If this is really so, isn’t it curious that there have been almost no published arguments from them to date?

In my conversations with ordinary citizens I find that nearly everyone agrees nuclear power is inevitable.

So where is this opposition that politicians refer to?

Let’s hear these opponents’ arguments — as long as they are rationally based on facts and not on myths and misrepresentations.

David Sowby

Knocksinna Crescent

Dublin 18