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However, there is an exception: when you say 鈥渢hree out of four of the readers who responded to our poll on the subject backed a nuclear programme. The industry must reflect this support, and be prepared to work with government to encourage the public to accept it too鈥�.

Those who, like me, have studied the nuclear power lobby鈥檚 arguments closely will find that they are pitifully weak 鈥� economically, technically, and environmentally. If you believe otherwise, I suggest you read the the report The Oil Endgame, produced by the Rocky Mountain Institute and recently published in the UK by Earthscan. Significantly, Amory Lovins, a first-rank atomic physicist, co-authored the report.

To quote just part of it: 鈥淣uclear power has no prospects in market-driven energy systems for a simple reason: nuclear plants cost too much to build. In round numbers, electricity from new light-water reactors will cost twice as much as from new wind farms, five to 10 times as much as distributed gas-fired cogeneration or trigeneration in buildings and factories (net of the credit for their recovered heat), and three to 30 times as much as end-use efficiency that can save most of the electricity now used. Any one of these three abundant and widely available competitors alone could knock nuclear power out of the market.鈥�

Our 鈥渂iggest task鈥� is to fight against vested interest, ignorance and apathy 鈥� even if the future of the nuclear building programme depends on us doing otherwise.