I WONDER if Britain’s Green Party members are now the only ones in step.

While they continue to oppose the revival of nuclear power, the rest of the world moves on.

The British government has, at last, accepted that we desperately need more nuclear power stations. It was such a pity that short-sighted political objectives and groundless fears over safety ever interrupted our original nuclear programme.

Still, better late than never. Recently, Jim Murphy, Secretary of State for Scotland, said, “the Scottish National Party offers no sophisticated argument against nuclear power.”

Spain’s Iberdrola and France’s GDF Suez have entered into partnership to work with Scottish and Southern on the construction of new nuclear plants in the UK.

In Europe, 14 countries are getting together to work on the idea of a shared nuclear waste repository.

Sweden has scrapped its anti-nuclear policy and Germany is under pressure to do the same.

Italy now aims to generate 25 per cent of its electric power from nuclear energy, and has created a government department to achieve this.

The French are to build another reactor at Penly.

In the USA, nuclear-build is flourishing like never before, and the Nuclear Energy Institute says it is one of America’s few economic bright spots.

DR JOHN SANDALLS, Environmental Scientist, Locks Lane, Wantage