DEAR News Of The Area,

AS much as I believe in freedom of speech I was really taken aback by the letter from a Mr K Higgs in Thursday’s 21 November issue of the News Of The Area.

The gentleman’s letter was full of falsehoods and showed his total lack of knowledge and ignorance on how a modern nuclear reactor works, not to mention the safety systems they employ.

Just one of his many wrong statements intimated that a magnitude 4.1 earthquake would result in an “uncontrolled power outage” which would lead to a “loss-of-coolant incident affecting the highly radioactive nuclear reactor core”.

Modern reactors are independently powered by onsite generators, they are not connected to the general grid, they generate their own power by whatever means.

Please sir do a little reading and research otherwise you risk making a fool of yourself.

Yours sincerely,
Robert HARDING,
Boat Harbour.