David Hansen wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:38:19 +0000 someone who may be The Natural
Philosopher wrote this:-

I have never read such utter ******** in my life.

Ah, proof by assertion.

Today, the conditions are not worse, they are HUGELY better. Oil/gas is
so expensive that nuclear energy is actually profitable.

Then the nuclear lobby would be building their power stations. There
is nothing to stop them and has never been anything to stop them.
Instead they want the planning system fixed and a number of other
risks transferred elsewhere before they do anything.



The reason they are NOT is because they cannot get planning, and they
are faced with a totally open ended 'clean up charge' that a government
may or may not impose on them sometime in the future.

on economic grounds, without those two issueas, they make sense.

But faced with a bunch of ale swilling bearded bunny huggers putting up
CND camps in the middle of a building site, they tend to say 'not worth
the risk'

Look at Huntingdon Life Sciences for how a vicious minority can wreck a
company for no good reason other than religious hatred?

Then there is teh vexed 'decommissioning cost' issue. Its totally biased
against nuclear power. No one expects the fossil fuel plant to be
charged for the cost of removing a few billion tons of CO2 from the
environment..but a couple of billion levy for a few hundred tons of
uranium, Hey why not?