Xyga wrote:MintyTheCat wrote:Do you feel safe with them running it?

You know we have on our soil the most reactors and waste storage facilities already, but there's a cultural omerta on the topic.
The real doom of Europe will come when the French won't be able to pay for that shit anymore, and you neighbors will all have a taste of the sweet French-made fallout.

I know that and I also know that France provides the UK with energy through nuclear power too.
The issue here is trust: I simply do not trust the chinese government and most certainly not on british soil.
When it all blows up they are safely sitting on the other side of the world leaving Europe to handle the fall out.
"But Lord Sassoon, chair of the China Britain Business Council, told the BBC's Today Programme he could not see what the problem was.
"Why would they want to turn off a nuclear power station in which they had some ownership?
"It doesn't seem terribly logical to me, except in extreme circumstances in which that would be the least of the UK's problems.""
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34587650
Sassoon clearly has no idea what it means to have the means of an irrecoverable disaster, sitting time bomb on your own turf. The man is clearly delusioned.
That is all very
reassuring. You wonder how these selfish idiots end up making the big decisions.
Why not have the Russians do the catering for this bonfire whilst we are at it?