Privatised nuclear clean-up ‘will cause accidents’ (UK)

[jpak]

http://www.sundayherald.com/53688

 PLANS to privatise the £56 billion clean-up of Britain’s ageing nuclear sites will cause serious accidents, one of the industry’s most senior figures has warned.

Brian Watson, former director of the UK’s largest nuclear site at Sellafield in Cumbria, has accused ministers of pursuing “erroneous dogma” that could result in costly mistakes.

His warning comes as Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares to launch his long-awaited energy review this week. The review is widely expected to launch a new programme of nuclear power stations and is set to provoke bitter arguments.

Watson thinks that the introduction of competitive tendering for decommissioning nuclear plants, to begin later this year, could be “disastrous”. He fears the “loss of control” could be similar to that of Railtrack, the private rail company that collapsed in 2001.

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[Dead_Parrot]

1. Damn right...

...I maintain the veiw that nucluear power (and the associated activities) is damn dangerous if left to anyone motivated by profit: The only people who should be allowed near the stuff are competant engineers with no interest in cutting costs (and corners).

[Massacure]

2. AKA France.

/* Massacure waits for freepers heads to explode at the fact that the right way to run nuclear is the French way.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Well, I didn't like to say it... nt