"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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: Steve Terry wrote:

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: Indeed, Nuclear power can only be run anywhere near safely,
: if private profit is taken out of the equation.
:
:
: Absolute tosh.
:
: All that is required is an independent inspectorate with teeth.

Absolute tosh, all it needs is to take way any reason to cut
costs (profit) and there is then no need to have the additional
costs of an independent inspectorate with teeth that have to be
paid for out of the profits - in other words what you propose
would be an ever increasing vortex of extra costs being paid for
by ever greater cost cutting to maintain the same level of
profit!...

:
: If that was, in general true of all industry, we would have
planes
: falling out of the sky every other flight.
:
: The fact is that planes are as safe as the CAA or whatever body
it is,
: requires them to be.

Absolute tosh, no airline wants their planes 'falling out of the
sky', it tends to make people book on other airlines (or not use
air travel at all), it's the quickest route to bankruptcy there
is - as a couple of US airlines found out...

The function of the CAA is to work with other 'federal' aviation
authorities and the aircraft industry to achieve common safety
and maintenance schedules etc. (part of that latter work is to
investigate when there has been an air crash).
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Regards, Jerry.