The lights are on...

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Damien

No, probably that they don't want to commit political capital and money to an issue that wouldn't arise in their term. They won't get the credit or the blame. Politicians think about themselves and their position, not as part of a grander scheme.

I'm not sure the single state obsessed Eurocrats fit that category but that's another issue.

There's no doubt there's been a large degree of plain dithering over recent decades but things in the world have changed dramatically in the last few years and I believe the 'rules of the game' are being slowly rewritten behind closed doors because a sesimic change in our way of life is on the cards and those with the power want to hold onto it. Who'd have predicted, even 10 years ago, what's been happening in China, India etc. and all the problems in Europe and the US? It'll all be done in 'our' best interests of course...

Does Amazon sell tin foil hats BTW?

[Osem]

Britain's energy sector is close to securing tens of billions of pounds in investment from the Far East, Energy Secretary Ed Davey has said.

He said a "massive" wave of investment in nuclear and other technology from China, Japan and Korea would help secure the UK's future power supply.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24511829

Let's hope he's right and things start happening soon...

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Osem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24511829

Let's hope he's right and things start happening soon...

Omg you can bet the tree hugging greens will hate this with a vengeance

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Chris

It's generally possible to build a new reactor next door to an existing one. And the communities that already live with them tend to appreciate them because they bring a shed load of cash into the local economy.

and the local cats love em cos the fish have 3 heads

[Taf]

Foreign investment means foreign control.

Not that we control much in the UK anymore.

The way things move in this country it'll still be 20-30yrs before we see anything

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by martyh

The way things move in this country it'll still be 20-30yrs before we see anything

Indeed every green looney in the country will turn up at any site they think might be involved and make camp.

Originally Posted by Sirius

Indeed every green looney in the country will turn up at any site they think might be involved and make camp.

I want to see lorryloads of heavy plant and 10 miles of security fencing around a big hole in the ground as soon as any investment is announced

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by martyh

I want to see lorryloads of heavy plant and 10 miles of security fencing around a big hole in the ground as soon as any investment is announced

One mile exclusion zone with the military doing the guarding is what i would class as the minimum for a nuclear power station.

I did the guarding on Salisbury plain once when i was based in Tidworth. We were there stopping the CND idiots trying to get in the cruse missile sites when they deployed on the plain to train.

Boy was it fun and i must admit i did fell sorry for them because we had just returned from a tour in Londonderry where we had a bit of a hard time. So they got the brunt of it

Originally Posted by Sirius

One mile exclusion zone with the military doing the guarding is what i would class as the minimum for a nuclear power station.

I did the guarding on Salisbury plain once when i was based in Tidworth. We were there stopping the CND idiots trying to get in the cruse missile sites when they deployed on the plain to train.

Boy was it fun and i must admit i did fell sorry for them because we had just returned from a tour in Londonderry where we had a bit of a hard time. So they got the brunt of it

Funny thing was, I never saw any reports of CND protests in the Warsaw Pact countries, or setting up of 'Peace Camps' around Soviet SS-20 bases....

Until such time as a viable energy project can be completed and deliver benefits within a five year timeframe none of our spineless politicians will do a thing. They don't care about the majority of the country because they are not part of the majority and don't need to either worry or deal with the same stuff most of us do. As soon as something comes along that can be done quick so they can both announce it's start and successful and beneficial outcome in a single parliament's time they will keep doing what they have been doing for the last thirty years lots of talking and not much else.

I think they may be affected by power outages, just like the rest of us....

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Funny thing was, I never saw any reports of CND protests in the Warsaw Pact countries, or setting up of 'Peace Camps' around Soviet SS-20 bases....

Not sure what your point is there?

Originally Posted by Pierre

Not sure what your point is there?

We had to police protests and guard our bases from protestors, who thought what we were doing was evil - the same protestors didn't duplicate those behaviours in the countries of the 'other side', who also had nuclear weapons...

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

We had to police protests and guard our bases from protestors, who thought what we were doing was evil - the same protestors didn't duplicate those behaviours in the countries of the 'other side', who also had nuclear weapons...

I thought that was what you meant, but didn't want to comment as that it show a massive wedge of naivety on your part.

The countries behind the iron curtain were not what you would call " free" countries.

If the mothers of Moscow or Leningrad had started to congregate outside the nuclear bases of the CCCP they would have bee carted off to the gulag.