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Nuclear Industry

Two things confuse me about this. First, on whether AP1000 has been built, I understand that a series already ordered by China is in the process of being built, as is the reactor from Areva. By the time the UK comes to order such technology, it will have been tried and tested elsewhere. The worry would be if the UK tried to engineer the technology to a higher specification and got it wrong. Secondly, on the Canadian CANDU reactor, I understand that the proposal is to initiate the new build of another technology beyond that used at present. I believe that there is an order from somewhere within Canada. It looks as though all three will be competing here with technology that will be new but which will have been built elsewhere and tried and tested.