to most of us in South Wales
this nuclear power plant
across the Bristol Channel
on the sleepy Somerset shore
that seemed a world away
from the bathers at Penarth
or in nearby Cardiff Bay.
But I read in the news today
about the authorization
for tonnes of its nuclear mud
to be dumped just one mile
off from the Penarth coast
at a mere ten days’ notice.
It’s safe the authorities say
yet if that is really the case
why would this slurry need
to be disposed of anyway?
Hinkley Point has suddenly
come much closer to home
so whatever the officials claim
you will no longer find me
bathing in this radioactive sea.