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So 14 years after they came into office this Government has made proposals to improve the regulations. Just i time for them to leave office in disgrace and another lot will come in who will likely defer any decision.

I wonder who owns the IP on the revised UK version of the plant. I wonder why the next two similar plants are not already under construction.

If MoD purchasing policy is anything to go by they will wait until just after the workforce has been dispersed before announcing a new order.

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Astonishingly, Great Britain was the first nation to build a grid scale nuclear power plant - Calder Hall.

It was decided by the UK Government to proceed with the civil nuclear power programme in 1952, and construction at Calder Hall began the following year and was carried out by Taylor Woodrow Construction using 1950s engineering and construction techniques and was officially opened on 17 October 1956 by Queen Elizabeth II.

Originally designed for a life of 20 years the plant was after 40 years was in July 1996 granted an operation licence for a further ten years.

The station was closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor having been in use for nearly 47 years.

Says it all...

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