An interesting piece on Newsnight about Britain's bid to now build 10 nuclear reactors in the next 20 years. It gave a report of Finland and their reactor project which is a few years behind schedule and on which we are basing our designs.
A reactor has never been built to time in this country, they are complex projects. Also it is probably a good example of the skills simply not existing in enough quantity to be able to do the projects that quickly (we have not looked after or maintained people with the skills, there has been no major construction of these things for tens of years).
Still none of this deterred the government representative who those the first reactor being online in 2017 was achievable. He made some points about keeping check on safety during construction rather than in the later stages as was the case in Finland.
Of course if it is not online by 2017, the lights could go out?
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