Why is it that we, the consumer, can see just what excellence comes out of China ?
But some seem blinkered by the price
Hey Bridgewater - look out - Who needs a Tsunami? It may be built in !!
Cannot even store things safely - never mind anything else.
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A few points:
"Cannot store things safely" - maybe they should have stored it in somewhere like Buncefield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire
Or how about places where ammonium nitrate has gone bang in the last 10 years? Such as in the US twice, France, Spain, Australia, Mexico....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters
Or maybe they should have stored near a firework factory in Denmark:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seest_fireworks_disaster
(houses had to be demolished afterwards)
Or the Netherlands:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster
So I fail to see how you equate nuclear safety with other industrial accidents to paint China as some particular disaster area.
Meanwhile, we have nuclear power, with less deaths per GW of power produced than any other energy source. In fact of the nuclear accidents I have found, China doesn't appear much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country
Nuclear power is the safest energy source we have.
China's first plant went online in 1991, and they haven't done bad on the safety issue. As with many thing in China, they are improving as well.
Also, why are you concerned about Chinese safety standards when it will have to be built to UK standards, and Westinghouse is a US company, and Toshiba will be doing the work (although I would expect many UK contractors to do the actual work). In addition, the AP1000 is being built in China (multiple sites), US, and Bulgaria, before the UK, so we are getting a fairly refined design.
And you mention a tsunami - that incident along with a major earthquake where nuclear power killed err... no one, but over 20,000 people died from the natural disaster. Fukushima is an example of how nuclear power shows itself to be safer than its critics claim, and yet they still try to paint it as some evil dangerous entity, when the opposite is true. Especially when you consider that the other nuclear sites in that area closed down perfectly safely that day.
Fukushima was an old design. It was known to be a risk. And last time I checked, we are not at risk from such natural disasters here in the UK, dispite some fearmongering to the contruary.
You really are clutching at straws.
