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Letter: Atomic ambitions

Published 29 May 2013

From Lucian McLellan

I was overjoyed to see you giving Jochen Flasbarth space to dismantle the pro-nuclear fission claims (18 May, p 24) and noticed that he did not answer his own question as to why governments keep building fission reactors.

One answer, of course, is that they provide the means to make nuclear weapons for some.

Fusion and renewables have always made the most sense.

Bristol, UK

Issue no. 2919 published 1 June 2013

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