"Matt" aka Lord Hall wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:40:47 +0000 (UTC), "John"
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"Chris Bacon" wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

People have been very emotional about nuclear power. i've heard
ministers
claiming blatint lies to be facts...

Why is there never any discussion of pebble bed reactors, currently
under development in many parts of the world, notably China?

Is this the same China that was touted on TV a short while ago as
building
four/five Coal fired power stations each the size of Drax over the next
ten
years?

No reason why not, that sounds half way to a balanced energy policy.

If it wasn't for Thatcher pulling the plug on (at the time very
advanced) UK clean coal research after kicking the crap out of the
miners then we could still be sitting on generous UK controlled gas
reserves, burning a sensible balance of coal in a new generation of
clean coal power stations while profitably exporting similar
technology all over the world (maybe even to China) thus providing
real jobs in the UK, funding an even better NHS, better schools, a few
thousand wind turbines, a couple of tidal barrages and maybe a few
nukes. But no, the bitch was not for turning - (I reckon a couple of
hours at the stake might have changed her)

Lord Hall, the woman was filth, that is clear. She cut the nose of the UK
for spite because she hated unions. It is all coming back to haunt us. We
could be having clean burning coal power stations and miner bands still
playing too. She was wicked, clearly wicked.