One disaster should not put us off nuclear

IN Adi Roche’s letter (April 14), the dark word ‘Chernobyl’ is mentioned no less than eight times. No mention is given to years of successful low CO2 output nuclear-electric generation across Europe — without incident.

No mention is given to the high-risk operations at Chernobyl or the complexity/design issues in the now archaic Soviet RBMK reactor.

The root causes of that accident were complex and involved many human factors, including an unacceptable tolerance of risk.