I refer to your report Nuclear - the nation's alternative power.

It's disturbing that the government is pondering the nuclear power option. Using the comparison with Indonesia and Thailand to push the case for nuclear power is simply juvenile. When it comes to dealing with health, safety and life, keeping up with the Joneses is the most stupid attitude you could have.

Cheap? Yes, but that's only in the short term and only if you ignore the costs and danger of storing the nuclear waste and health consequences.

Are more poor Orang Asli, Orang Ulu and Dayaks going to be robbed of their lands again for the storage of nuclear waste? Do you want the nuclear waste to be stored in your state? Or shall we store them offshore like at Pulau Pangkor, Langkawi, Labuan or Sipadan?

It's simply not worth it. I would rather pay higher electricity bills, say goodbye to my air-con and forget about a high-tech plasma TV. The government should seriously study ways to use energy efficiently and find ways to exploit other energy sources such as solar power which we have in abundance.

I just don't believe that our civil servants, politicians and government could be trusted to operate something so dangerous that even the First World cannot deal with properly. Recent events have shown that we can't even manage Sipadan or operate the LRT properly what more nuclear reactors.

Above all, with the standard of professionalism in the Malaysian civil service, the corruption culture and a weak press, I am simply not confident that the operation of any nuclear plant here would be handled in a transparent manner or allowed to be monitored vigilantly by civil society.

In Bolehland, it's more likely that any mishap - inevitable under the Boleh culture - at a nuclear plant would be quickly covered up and the authorities will never get to the bottom of it.

I guess we can tolerate our below-par politicians messing with our economy and national finance, gambling with our foreign reserves and flip-flopping our sports and education policies to retard our children's development.

But we simply cannot allow them to play with apocalypse. A Third World political culture can only be allowed to handle Third World facilities and operations. It can never be entrusted with sophistication.

To all the project brokers out there: Build 10 more sports academies overseas if you wish, but don't ever go nuclear.