22nd January 2021: The Day When Nuclear Weapons Are Finally Banned

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  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    "So that's x billion for a weapon we can't even use, but we've got to be willing to use it, or at least say that we are, but if we use it then it wasn't a deterrent and we're all screwed" - Leon Rosselson, Faslane 365 - a voice of sanity.
  • Merry VoleMerry Vole Shipmate
    How come the UK can make nuclear warheads but can't build (currently) a nuclear power station?
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    Merry Vole wrote: »
    How come the UK can make nuclear warheads but can't build (currently) a nuclear power station?

    Because we have the latter already we can do the former.

    We are doing the latter at Hinkley Point C with three more proposed.
  • Merry VoleMerry Vole Shipmate
    Electricite de France n'est pas?
  • The warheads in the Trident missiles we're buying are supposedly a UK design ... but the rumour mill is that it's a design that's remarkably similar to a US design.

    The UK did design nuclear reactors. But, Hinkley C is a French design (with finance from France, China etc - and so, profits will follow the finance), as is the proposed Sizewell C (the B reactor there is a US design). There are also Japanese and US design reactors in the new build mix for the UK. For new nuclear power we're reliant on non-UK designs and non-UK funding. For warheads it looks like someone took a peek at classified US documents and replicated the design calling it "British".
  • Marvin the MartianMarvin the Martian Admin Emeritus
    Merry Vole wrote: »
    How come the UK can make nuclear warheads but can't build (currently) a nuclear power station?

    The former are supposed to explode, the latter aren't. One suspects that might make the latter a bit more tricky to make :wink: .
  • Merry VoleMerry Vole Shipmate
    So should we be lenient towards Iran; build a nuclear bomb to check you've got the recipe right, then build your power station :wink:
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