SIR – Last year, our Government agreed to the building of a new nuclear power station. However, in the presentation of this as a supposed positive development, nothing was said about the question of clean-up and where the toxic waste would go.

Of course, most people aren’t keen on the idea of the waste being placed anywhere near their vicinity, and recently county councillors in the North East voted ‘no’ to disposal of nuclear waste in that locality. The Government responded by overruling them, indicating it was likely to impose a nuclear dump on any area of the country it deemed suitable.

Then, this week it was reported that the Government has been criticised for “lack of oversight” in the handling of Sellafield, described as “one of the world’s most hazardous nuclear sites.”

The Government had handed a contract extension to a private company running a clean-up of the site in Cumbria (because it was taking so long) and the decontamination is now set to cost a whopping £70 billion!

Nuclear-’costly’ it seems in more ways than one!

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose