But, under French control

"""It would seem the government authorised the sale just before its 
conversion to a nuclear future for UK generation. In the annals of 
misjudgments this must rank at much the same level as Gordon Brown's sale 
of our gold reserves at the bottom of the market."""

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Brown39s-nuclear-power-
misjudgment.4536234.jp

"Phi"  wrote in message 
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>
> But, under French control
>
> """It would seem the government authorised the sale just before its
> conversion to a nuclear future for UK generation. In the annals of
> misjudgments this must rank at much the same level as Gordon Brown's sale
> of our gold reserves at the bottom of the market."""
>
> http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Brown39s-nuclear-power-
> misjudgment.4536234.jp

Because Brown believes this country hasn't got the necessary experience!
Hasn't he heard of industry buying in expertise if necessary? The company I 
used to work for brought in US engineers when they couldn't find the 
necessary skills in this country, so why not nuclear expertise? For some 
reason a lot of French seem to like living in England!
The companies might have to pay their engineers a bit more than usual, but 
that wouldn't be a bad thing.
B.

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:06:53 +0100, Retired wrote:

> "Phi"  wrote in message
> news:OeidnR26lrNXrXzVnZ2dnUVZ8tDinZ2d@bt.com...
>>
>> But, under French control
>>
>> """It would seem the government authorised the sale just before its
>> conversion to a nuclear future for UK generation. In the annals of
>> misjudgments this must rank at much the same level as Gordon Brown's
>> sale of our gold reserves at the bottom of the market."""
>>
>> http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Brown39s-nuclear-power-
>> misjudgment.4536234.jp
> 
> Because Brown believes this country hasn't got the necessary experience!
> Hasn't he heard of industry buying in expertise if necessary? The
> company I used to work for brought in US engineers when they couldn't
> find the necessary skills in this country, so why not nuclear expertise?
> For some reason a lot of French seem to like living in England! The
> companies might have to pay their engineers a bit more than usual, but
> that wouldn't be a bad thing.
> B.

Three major companies with highly skilled resource and expertise (now 
disbanded) have been hanging around, waiting for the three successive 
governments to make up their minds about building Nuclear Power Stations 
over the last twenty years. We led the world in nuclear technology once, 
we even reported on the instability of the RBMK reactors at Chernobyl in 
1978.