Letter: Letters: Open and shut

From DOUG McROBERTS

I was a little surprised by last week’s ‘Long-lived reactors’ report,
which stated that five Nuclear Electric Magnox stations were shut down last
year, and then given permission to reopen (In Brief, 11 January).

Four of them, of course, didn’t close down at all, and are still reliably
generating at high load factors. We have every confidence that we will still
be generating Magnox electricity beyond the turn of the century.

The fifth, Trawsfynydd, remains shut down while Nuclear Electric finalises
a safety case which is expected to support operation to at least 30 years
(1995).

Doug McRoberts Nuclear Electric, Gloucester