On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:44:28 +0100 someone who may be Roger
wrote this:-

Oh yes. The market has been rigged alright but not in the way you
suggest but by requiring British Energy to use the expensive government
owned fuel processor instead of adopting the far cheaper option of waste
storage and by manipulating the base price of electricity to eventually
bankrupt British Energy after which, surprise, surprise, the rules were
changed to make nuclear generation profitable again.

The expensive government owned fuel processor is part of the nuclear
"industry". I was aware of the differences between reactor operators
and the fuel processor before you highlighted them.

British Energy has only just been reborn and as long as the possibility
exists that the government will again resort to underhand tricks you
won't get any commercial enterprize interested in owning and running
nuclear powerstations.

And that is the case round the world in comparable countries is it?
Every one of those governments over many years has manipulated
things so nobody has invested in nuclear generation?

Carbon taxes seem high on the agenda for all 3 parties but applying a
carbon tax to a industry that doesn't directly product CO2 was a
political decision that must have been at least largely influenced by
wind lobby pressure.

If only the wind lobby was that powerful. Sadly they are not, unlike
the nuclear lobby.

Anyway, the nuclear "industry" does produce CO2 directly. Not much
at the power station it is true, but either side of the power
station it produced plenty.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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