As I sat watching the Stop Hinkley-sponsored ‘Little voices from Fukushima’ film at the Creative Inovation Centre in Taunton on Saturday February 17, listening to the disturbing facts following the nuclear disaster after the Japanese earthquake in 2011, I find that the biggest earthquake to hit the UK since 1906 was happening here at 2.31pm!

What an earth shattering co-incidence it was that the horrors that are unfolding in Japan could happen here.

Unseen radiation contaminated food, children with growths in their thyroid glands, distressed mothers not knowing which way to turn to keep their families safe but wanting them to lead a ‘normal’ life, fractured families distraught with guilt, fear and huge anxiety that will never go away.

All this could have been our future too if Hinkley Point B station had been just a bit closer to the epicentre.

Can there be no better warning for us all here in Somerset than the earth movements of that Saturday afternoon telling us to stop nuclear power?

We don’t need nuclear any more, we need to move on to the renewable revolution that is happening around the world.

Other countries are taking the morale high ground and making decisions for a sustainable green future and considering the carbon footprint of their energy choices.

Have a think about that when the next 300 lorries thunder past you today to take rubble out to build the next Hinkley nuclear reactor.

Radioactive contamination is for life, for hundreds of generations of life. What we do now is what shapes the lives of the future people of this planet, and indeed mother earth is watching…

Jo Smoldon, Chedzoy.