STEPHEN BURKE,
Sir, - Kevin Myers (An Irishman's Diary, April 12th), makes e a good point in saying that much of Britain is at risk from to the reprocessing activities carried out in Sellafield, and we often tend to forget this.
This may be true, but the fact is that Britain benefits from this process, which is quite profitable, and also benefits from producing electricity by nuclear power. We do not. Sellafield's effects on us, at this side if the Irish sea, are a mere externality, it seems, to the good people at BNFL. They get cheap fuel, they profit from the waste of others, and they have somewhere convenient to hide the mess - the Irish Sea. Whereas we do not benefit at all, and can do little about it, it seems. - Yours, etc.,
STEPHEN BURKE,
Dunshaughlin,
Co Meath.