Letter: IN your report on the shutdown of one reactor at Torness for a valve repair (“Reactor powered down as valve trouble is uncovered”, The Herald, March 18) you quote WWF Scotland as asserting: “It’s clear that nuclear power is showing itself to be an increasingly unreliable source of energy … Scotland is right to be choosing to harness more power from renewable energy sources” to “end our reliance on unreliable and unpopular nuclear power and fossil fuels”. Implying that our existing nuclear stations are unreliable is not borne out by fact.
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