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Nuclear Industry

My hon. Friend has been very generous in allowing people to contribute while he delivers his main speech. The report suggests that two main nuclear reactor designs seem to have grasped the attention of the Committee. I am pleased that the Chairman has gone further than that in saying that they are not only looking at the AP1000 and the EPR Areva models, but the CANDU model, which some of us visited around a year and a half ago. It was impressive in that that reactor can now be built in four years. Has he considered what is happening in South Africa with pebble bed reactors, which do not require to be built by the sea, because they are not cooled by sea water? They are far smaller and normally built in blocks of four. They can be placed anywhere and are ideal for places such as South Africa, but could have a role to play in the United Kingdom.