Who Needs CO2 to Heat the Planet When You Have Nuclear

Letter in Westmorland Gazette January 15th 2026

Who Needs CO2 to Heat the Planet

Dear Editor

EDF is brazenly heralding the new year with their hype about how much CO2 Heysham’s dodgy old reactors have “saved.’ What they don’t say is that Heysham’s old reactors with their cracked graphite cores have used a vanishingly small amount of the vicious ongoing heat they have produced. A vicious radioactive heat that will continue to be produced for thousands of years with the proposal to use the Lake District geology as a giant heat sink for this nuclear heat which cannot be turned off. Who needs CO2 to heat the planet when the nuclear industry is heating it up directly at great expense to the public in every way.

Yours sincerely,

Marianne Birkby

Lakes Against Nuclear Dump (a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign)