UK nuclear power plant gets go-ahead

This is the bit that concerns me the most:eek:

He added: "It is essentially a subsidy of between what we calculate to be £800m to £1bn a year that the UK taxpayer and energy consumer will be putting into the deep pockets of Chinese and French corporations, which are essentially their governments."

Why cant we build our own nuclear power stations with any benefits being passed down to uk consumers in the form of cheaper energy bills???I wonder how many brown envelopes this one took,and so the subterfuge begins:sick:
 
Outragous that we can't build our own nuclear power station,wouldn't mind but we were the first people in the world to ever build one back in 1956.
 
lets hope this is one of many and the scaffold rates get a boost and none of this ante payeing digs rubbish!!!
 
Berkeley

Nice little magnox station, Me Gramp was on that back in the day.
All you needed then was a Sun newspaper and 20 woodbines.:D
Comes to something like you say, we cant build nothing ourselves now. and now the french are in on it there will be more strikes than work.
at least the Chinese may insist on 6'6" lifts, and thats high for them
 
SWIFTY said:
Are you French?
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Moi mon cherie?

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Yorkshire Lee said:
Outragous that we can't build our own nuclear power station,wouldn't mind but we were the first people in the world to ever build one back in 1956.
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The good old US of A again
 
source The Telegraph

By Michael Hanlon
9:48PM BST 20 Oct 2013


When the 30-year-old Queen Elizabeth opened the world’s first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, on October 17 1956, she could scarcely have imagined that in her lifetime she would see her nation’s unassailable lead in this white-heat technology thrown into the dustbin.


During her reign, our atomic expertise, which promised a future of clean, green and affordable electricity, has been handed to foreign competitors on a plate, and Britain’s grid is now under such strain that 57 years later, we find ourselves relying on China and France to keep the lights on.
 
Give it a couple of weeks and they will announce that a further two reactors will be built at the wylfa site on Anglesey, they've already bought all the land adjacent to the existing site, they've spent millions on it already.
 
No British company would take it on( if there are actually any British companys left)It's got to be built on time in budget,no Government bail outs.It's great news for all those Albanians,Russians.Pakistanis,Somalis etc heading to Britain in there thousands.Ten years work!Who knows some of them might even be speaking English at the end of it!!
 
Rigger said:
source The Telegraph

By Michael Hanlon
9:48PM BST 20 Oct 2013


When the 30-year-old Queen Elizabeth opened the world’s first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, on October 17 1956, she could scarcely have imagined that in her lifetime she would see her nation’s unassailable lead in this white-heat technology thrown into the dustbin.


During her reign, our atomic expertise, which promised a future of clean, green and affordable electricity, has been handed to foreign competitors on a plate, and Britain’s grid is now under such strain that 57 years later, we find ourselves relying on China and France to keep the lights on.
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Don't believe all you read in the newspapers.
 
Seems China are spreading their wings everywhere,they already own Sunseeker (Britains biggest yacht maker),Manganese Bronze (Black Cabs),Gieves and Hawkes(the Saville Row tailor),Harvey Nichols, also,shares in BP,Barclays,Superdrug,Thames water,Weetabix,Heathrow airport,not to mention the billions more they plan to pump into our country,they will own us like they do America eventually.
 
Worked with this lot on west burton what a bunch of useless ***** edf are Kiers have been on hinkley doing the enabling works for last two years there building a village on site for the workers
 
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