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Peace walls and a united Ireland
about 3 hours ago
Sir, – Proinsias De Rossa argues cogently for a re-evaluation of the “noble aspiration” of a united Ireland, given the existence of 20 miles of peace walls highlighting the division between the communities in the North (Letters, April 23rd).
More than half the peace walls that exist today were built after the signing of the Belfast Agreement.
As GK Chesterton wrote, “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
Mr De Rossa is right that community reconciliation is the priority. – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Nuclear power and climate change
about 5 hours ago
Sir, – We read with real interest William Reville’s opinion piece on Ireland needing nuclear power to manage climate change (“We need nuclear power to manage climate change”, Science, April 15th).
For Ireland to go for nuclear power would require not just spending billions on the technology, but also considerable resource in setting up an independent regulator and a waste agency for dealing with the radioactive waste that comes from the nuclear fission process.
Small modular nuclear reactors are being put forward as the panacea for the nuclear industry, but there is currently no agreed design that has been approved in Europe. They would only be cost-effective if being done in bulk and such reactors have safety, emergency planning and waste issues that all need to be considered. Instead, there is a growing number of peer-reviewed academic and industry reports that show that a 100 per cent renewable energy system is fea