MANY thanks to Mr Keenan for his valuable contribution and tangential input.

Would he please like to reread my letter? I reported that years ago the head of UK AEA said that in the not too distant future we (UK – not France, not Greece) would have more than sufficient power.

He says I do not know how much power is required. How does he know this?

He says I impute that total atomic power sufficiently is not possible. A 10-year-old schoolboy would know that if any country had enough atomic power stations then it would have enough atomic power.

Derek Weeks, Martin Way, Andover