I don’t want the Trent to glow with radiation

I WAS amazed that our councillors have expressed an interest in having a new proposed experimental nuclear fusion reactor built at Ratcliffe-on-soar Power Station site.

The site is due to be decommissioned by 2025, under a Government guideline of removing coalfired power stations by 2025.

What’s worst then, a reliable coal-fired power station that has very capably delivered our electricity needs, since the 1960s or a new experimental nuclear fusion power station, where little is known.

If we now no longer need this site, not even for back-up energy generation purposes in the UK, or as an industrial heritage site, should we really be investing in an experimental nuclear fusion reactor in the highly populated East Midlands area ?

Needing some guinea pigs to try out this new technology to see if it works and is commercially viable on a full-scale production basis, apparently, This type of nuclear reactor does not have so much radioactivity associated with it, they say?

Radioactive hydrogen isotopes “with a half-life of 21 years” are proposed! That’s so appalling.

Let the French prove this first technology, as part of the wider EU power initiative, at their atomic energy site in the sparsely populated Saint Paul les Durance area and not here.

Let the French try this new nuclear fusion out and try to pass a production readiness review, etc. and test the viability of the commercial business case.

The East Midlands does not need radioactive materials supply chain logistics here.

Don’t want an experimental nuclear fusion reactor here. Nottingham does not want the River Trent glowing in the dark downstream!

I cannot believe what our councillors were thinking of? Just a nobrainer. Not here, thank you.

Ivan Gould

Chilwell generous Government support.

Isn’t it time councillors were held responsible for their own mess? Theres only one word for it – obscene. And a betrayal of the very people they supposedly represent.

Sell your assets and start to pay it back and if you’ve any conscience stop that pay rise and take a pay cut.

At the time this happened, it occurred to me that someone will pay dearly for this mess.

Well, it’s official, Nottingham now has the highest Council tax in Britain. Band D is a staggering £2.226.

I vote we all refuse to pay it...they can’t jail us all can they? Joyjackson

Colwick