Russia gas shortage

[Troll]

Not a good start - Numeracy Campaign: British teenagers among worst for dropping maths - Telegraph

I'm sure I saw an article about the next gen of nukes that we would have to import all the skilled jobs as there was no native talent around - all had either retired or were maxed out keeping the Magnox's limping on or decommisioning

As long as their Nuclear degree isn't from the Uni of Bangalore we may be OK

[KimberleyChris]

Well, we do have the skills, but one of the 'prices' of the coalition was that no public money would be used.

The old CEGB would have had them up and running 10 years ago. Sizewell B was the prototype, and the rest were meant to follow.

So they will probably be built (as arranged) mainly by French giant Areva, with minimal involvement from British concerns such as (for example) Sheffield Forgemasters (hence no loan).

We will end up just buying the electricity.

[AtW]

Looking forward to that, would be gr8 for my Gazprom investment

How good is it that they got no gaz to supply and become very unreliable partner during winters?

[KimberleyChris]

No.

Of course not.

We could start building tomorrow. We still have the really big construction firms like Babcocks, Mowlem etc.

A nuclear power station is just a big excavation, concrete pouring and welding job after all, and the reactor itself turns up on-site as a kit.

The issue is...who will be running the show, and where will they place their contracts?

Electricite de France (EDF) pretty well runs the UK nuclear industry now. GEC is now Alstom etc.

Like I said, NNC and the old CEGB were ready to go 15 years ago, and we would already have had Sizewell B-clones running all over the country by now, but now everything is foreign-owned.

[zeitghost]

I seem to recall dimly that Sheffield Forgemasters wanted a loan to build a press to make the reactor top.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10341119

Naturally, Dave & Co refused this on the grounds that we don't make stuff any more & can buy it all off the French/Germans/Septics/Japanese/Chinese/Indians/Canadians/Elbonians*.

*Delete where applicable.

[KimberleyChris]

Just have a WikiPeep

Sheffield Forgemasters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scroll to 'Capabilities'

We could do anything, if it wasn't for politicians.