While everyone waits to see if the teetering finances for Hinkley Point nuclear plant can be propped up, there is an equally high risk fate hanging over the English Lake District.

Nugen are currently running a consultation on their plans for the Moorside nuclear reactors just two miles outside the Lake District National Park.

What is barely creditable is that the supposed guardians of the national park will be raising no major objections to plans for Moorside. The Lake District National Park Authority states in its Moorside nuclear consultation response (April 2016): "We support the principle of a new build nuclear power station adjacent to Sellafield. The proposal would continue the long tradition of the nuclear industry in Cumbria and benefit the national and Cumbrian economy. Our support is consistent with that offered in 2011 when this authority commented on the National Policy Statement for Nuclear Power Generation."

And even more worrying is that all the UK's nuclear waste, including that from any new build reactors, will probably end up going into an underground repository for millennia.

And the most likely location for this repository is under the very same English Lake District, with the mine entrance at, or near, Sellafield.

ut what do the National Park Authority care, as long as we all support "the long tradition of the nuclear industry in Cumbria"?

David Siddall

Cockermouth