Letters to the Editor

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Dear Madam In your May /June issue of Nuclear Future, there is an article by Julia Pyke of EDF about Sizewell C. Regrettably there are a number of errors:1.、She says UK has never managed to replicate any nuclear power station from a single stable design.Not so - the Magnox stations were followed by the AGRs, of which 7 still operate, and a sequence ofRRA PWRs.2.、She says that Hinkley Point C has met all its milestones to date.Not so, as original date for operation was 2017, and price £9B- now 2025, and £22.5 B.3.、She exhibits a pie chart for 2020 residential customers bill, showing inter alia supply costs 33and suppliers obligations 7.It seems likely that these two items have been transposed, and distribution figure is questionable, as can be seen from EDF own website.It is indeed correct that we need Nuclear Power - for Security of Supply, for zero carbon, for despatchable power. Regrettably other renewables, such as Wind and Solar, do none of these things, as they are stochastically intermittent and extremely expensive.Sadly she has damaged both her own credibility and that of this journal by these errors, as one questions what else is incorrect.