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Old 13-03-2012, 10:23   #4
Tim Deegan
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Re: UK nuclear plans 'put energy in French hands'Government plans for nuclear power r

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
Environmentalists just searching around for another stick to try and beat everybody else with. We need nuclear power if the lights are to stay on and the French have solid experiance with nearly 80% of their electrical power being nuclear.

As for it being French how is that a risk? Any reasonably competent engineer will be able to understand how it works and needs to be maintained. If we ever had a fall out with the French do you really think that the UK government would let a French company shut down UK power plants? Utterly preposterous.
When you include the decomissioning costs, nuclear power is very expensive. It is also the most dangerous form of power production when things go wrong.

Germany are actually getting rid of their nuclear power stations.

I bet the French will hand them back to the UK when they need decomissioning, so the French make the profits, and then we have to pay out.
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