In your article 'Monumental task' about Dounreay (
Feature, 19 May) you describe the Fast Reactor sphere as a monument to a technology whose time never came.
Perhaps in future it will be viewed as a monument to yet another opportunity lost to the UK. A month ago Toshiba celebrated opening its new sodium test loop at its Yokohama Complex with ambitions to commercialise a new fast reactor design by 2020 that would operate for 30 years without refuelling.
Robin Herrick
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UK Enters ‘Golden Age of Nuclear’
The delay (nearly 8 years) in getting approval for the Rolls-Royce SMR is most worrying. Signifies a torpid and expensive system that is quite onerous...