On 11/5/2016 10:36 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
The point in this is that often no proper end to end costing is done when
its a state industry. also more mistakes are made in design and manufacture
when cost is not an issue, ie nobody thinks about servicing and the
radiation in parts to be changed etc. They usually do do a reasonable job of
safety, but as I say not much else.

However there are also issues with commercial designs and builds due to
compromises to keep costs down that seemed good at the time... ahem. 3 mile
island anyone?
Brian

Brian

It's only nation states that can kick off really large and innovative
projects, like launching satellites and moon rockets, or transitioning
nuclear weapons programmes (both bombs and submarines) into civil
applications.

America rather cleverly insulates their civil nuclear power stations
from back-end costs by only *leasing* them the fuel, not selling it
outright.