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Originally Posted by Chris
When you look at where this country used to be in terms of nuclear power the state we now find ourselves is shocking. We had the first civil nuclear power programme in the world and designed and built our own reactors. Now apparently we’re unable to do anything without the blessing of EDF including, it should be noted, its trade union which has a seat on the board and understandably has demanded to know, from time to time, why this level of investment is being spent in the UK rather than in France.
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In the UK, our expertise in nuclear power reduced when the power companies were privatised and the company running nuclear power stations, British Energy, was acquired by EDF.