Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Nuclear Inspector Sticks Fingers In Ears, Shuts Eyes

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Turkey's don't vote for Christmas. And in other shocking news, the UK nuclear inspector says it's ok to build new nuclear power stations.

The Chief Inspector has issued a report in the wake of the Fukushima meltdown which says that there is no reason to place any restrictions on UK nuclear power plants. Indeed, it's fine to go ahead and build new ones.

This, to me, seems highly complacent, along the same lines as Salmond's declaration last year that there couldn't possibly be an oil leak in Scottish waters because we're so good at the oil thingy. Now the UK Nuclear Inspector reckons that the UK nuclear industry is absolutely fine and dandy.

I beg to differ.

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