Where the Germans fear to tread

[Andy Burns]

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Andy Burns writes

[The Nomad]

By _when_?

We need 'um NOW

Why oh why did some one not start this 10 yrs ago - when we had money ...

Oh as you were SNAFU.

Yes that's my Al titfer on the nail - Ta

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[Tim Watts]

Because the government are dickheads... And the greenwash bastards were scaring everyone. I'm with Johnny Ball on all of this...

I have no idea what any of that means... But I probably agree with it...

[Tim Streater]

That should be "The One Hundred Metres", or was Rincewind a sparks?

[The Nomad]

Agree

Situation Normal All Fouled(1) Up

Al => Aluminium

HTH

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(1) Well nearly but you can work that out I'm sure :-)

[The Other Mike]

before any construction begins, first output maybe fifteen years from now, providing only about 4 GW* of generation and because wind turbines 'make money faster' no one is wiling to provide finance to support it, the Japs (and the Yanks because this is GE-Hitachi) are barely doing anything above licencing the design.

We desperately need a quintuple dip recession to suppress demand, luckily all that is assured thanks to the outstanding skills of George Osborne.

• Maximum of three sites in total and they won't build more than one reactor of around 1300MW at each until the first batch are all up and running successfully.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

According to BBC news tonight, the reason the japs are interested is that nuclear is rather out of fashion in their country now...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well the beeb* WOULD emphasise that wouldn't they?

*That well known Guardian Alter Ego.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

They didn't emphasise it.

I find it quite interesting that the pro nuclear lobby want to ignore any possible hazards. And those hazards are likely to be greater by allowing a foreign owned company to operate here, as history has proved all over the world.

[The Natural Philosopher]

The three biggest nuclear accidents were all down to national operators operating nationally.

So history proves the reverse really.

[polygonum]

Well Hitachi C60s were foreign as well - and far better than some.

[Andy Burns]

They've recently turned a couple back on, and have a couple of new sites under construction, be interesting to see if they ever get commissioned.

[The Natural Philosopher]

They will. They will understand that its economic suicide to rely on imported gas and coal.

No one really wants nuclear, any more than they wanted coal powered steam trains, but when its all you have...that works and fits the bill.