Barry, you wrote:
"the failure of government to give the green light to the next generation of nuclear power".
Actually, this is a contradiction within your own argument: the Gov. did not fail to give the green light to new nukes, it was a German company (RWE I think its name is) that decided not to go ahead with building one or more atom stations in Britain (Wales if correct). The reason being, the decision of the German state to keep true to the German law which imposes a close-down of German atom stations.
So RWE, that runs a number of power stations in Germany, could not finance the construction of any new plant in Britain.
If the British Government were to build nuclear power stations here, they would have to do the opposite of what you say, and build them with State money, and this is exactly what you say should not be the case.
Was just a thought...
