IN his letter about nuclear power (Case for nuclear, May 23), J. Beisley says that investors find "renewables" too expensive.
He omits to mention the massive subsidies that nuclear power has always had.
For a long time there was a nuclear levy on every electric bill.
The latest estimate for the decommissioning of the existing nuclear industry is 70 billion pounds; this is in spite of the fact that nobody has any idea what to do with the waste and that the tax payer is picking up the bill.
If the government were to ask for tenders to build and run new nuclear power stations without subsidy of any kind, there would be no takers.
B. Emmerson,
Charles Street, Selby.
Updated: 09:31 Thursday, May 25, 2006
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