Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2010 21:18:10 +0100, Andy Champ
wrote:
Bruce wrote:
If that is really the case, perhaps you should tell the companies who
are poised to start building the next generation of nuclear power
stations, because they refuse to start without agreeing a very hefty
long term subsidy.

If what you say is true, nothing would be holding them back!

And who is building windmills with no subsidies?


That's a fair point. But if the Chapmans and Bloomfields of this
world are to be believed, nuclear is so cheap that it needs no subsidy
at all.

So why aren't the companies who are poised to start building the next
generation of nuclear power stations hard at work?

Because the figures don't add up!

I told you. Because there are no figures they can add up, when a huge
part of the cost equation is an unknown *political* situation.

EDF fully intends to build new stations on existing and new sites. It
has planning permission, BUT it wont if it thinks a bunch of bearded
lunatics are going to sit in the road, or that it will have to meet
insane safety targets, or insane decomissioning targets.




They are therefore demanding very hefty subsidies from the taxpayer
before going ahead.


No, they are not.


Perhaps Messrs. Chapman and Bloomfield should go to these companies
and tell them that their cost projections are completely wrong. Then
Chapman and Bloomfield could set up as energy consultants and clean up
... as we know with nuclear waste, there's a lot of cleaning up to do!


You know jack **** about nuclear power, or finance.