Professor Philip Walton:

The plants are very well managed and maintained, so they are not dangerous. The estimate of the number of people who die because of coal generation runs into a million per year. One has only to look at China. There was a picture in yesterday's edition of The Irish Times of the awful pollution in cities in China due to the use of coal. To show what China thinks of this, it has 17 nuclear power reactors operating at present, it is building a further 30, has plans for 59 more and proposals for a further 118. It sees the writing on the wall.