Representation by Duncan Armour
- Date submitted
- 30 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
One of the safest industries .... the airline industry has around 20 major crashes per year - every year. Human error and inefficient design and faulty automation all play their part. Reported nuclear energy "accidents" are over the 100 mark - with unreported incidents and discharges expected to have been many times that. In that light, let us consider the extreme damage of Chernobyl, the USD400 billion cost of its sarcophaguses, which could be considered as bolting the stable door when the horse has bolted (and has unleashed severe additional radiation all over Europe). Let us consider the ongoing untameable nature of the Fukushima outpouring of highly radioactive water into the Pacific - making that vast ocean into a marine desert - as well as toxifying all agricultural produce in the Asian and probably also US regions. Spending billions on putting nuclear plants in the UK is unnecessary, as wind and batteries are far cheaper and more efficient, and far and away safer. Any nuclear plant disaster anywhere in the UK would be devastating for the whole country - such a disaster in Suffolk would immediately wipe out the agriculture and tourism we rely on, as well as destroying the lives of residents. Whether it be the expected rise in sea levels, which will put Sizewell's nuclear cores under sea, and beyond our abilities to manage safety, or design fault, or human error, we just can't take the reckless gambling with lives and environment - all being done to make stupendously rich investors even more stupendously rich.