'Clean' nuclear energy is really a dirty bomb for future generations

CLP Holdings chief executive officer Andrew Brandler states that the company has 'begun to build more nuclear and natural gas, alongside renewables, in Asia'. ('Why power companies must clean up their act', November 24).

We are not mentally ready for nuclear power, and are already abusing our access to cheap energy sources like coal, oil and nuclear energy in the way that these are costed today.

Governments seem to run everything, in all countries, leaving people little choice or say in their own affairs. So power companies, it appears, can do what they want, and put out biased statements that speak from a commercially interested provider's point of view.

Nuclear power is touted as cheap and clean. It is neither. No nuclear power means no nuclear weapons. We are dumping nuclear waste because we don't know what else to do with it. This practice is a nuclear time bomb dropped on future generations.

If we had unlimited energy resources, we would produce an even greater quantity of non-essential consumer products for economically developed nations, which would pollute our earth even more.

That drive for overt spending would further fuel consumption of the fruits of the earth by the 'haves', causing even more depletion of the common flora and fauna.