General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

GB

Fifty five years ago the then Labour government decided to go ahead with further nuclear power stations. However, the choice of reactor was a disaster. They opted to press on with Advanced Gas Cooled reactors.
A friend of mine was a senior engineer on the AGR station based at Dounreay in Scotland.
AGR’s used liquid sodium as the primary coolant and ,unlike water cooled reactors, the sodium flowed over the fuel rods and so became radioactive.
Imagine trying to repair leaks in the stainless steel pipe work with 30 tons of radioactive liquid sodium leaking out.
The Industry never recovered from the set back, hence the French building nuclear stations in the UK.