Leaving Euratom !!

[EDDIE51]

With the recent headlines little if any coverage has been given to Mrs May's determination to leave Euratom as well as leaving the EU !
I suspect very few realise the consequences of such a decision.
http://bruegel.org/2017/02/brexit-goes-nuclear-the-consequences-of-leaving-euratom/
Put simply Euratom controls the entire European stocks of and access to Nuclear fuel!
Once out of Euratom , Euratom is a separate entity to the EU and we have been in Euratom since 1959, we no longer have access to fuel for our newly commissioned ,French / Chinese built, nuclear power plants!
Your views?

[scooping]

Eddies1: For goodness sake get real. We'll simply come to a new arrangement with whomsoever we want. That is because it will be in our mutual best interest. You're going on about the fact that this has nothing do with nuclear weapons and then going on about nuclear weapons. You seem to be thinking that it is impossible to set up new regulatory bodies or arrangements. Why is it hard?

[ToraToraTora]

ok we'll buy some off the septics, problem solved. Remind me what do they do at sellafield?

[ToraToraTora]

eddies the sort of bloke that gets barred from a pub and thinks he has to give up drinking!

[Togo]

No 3T he thinks that every body else has to give up drinking. (^_*)

[scooping]

Tora: Agreed. Why anyone's getting their knickers in a twist about this is beyond me. We can sort it.

[Zacs-Master]

I see the usual leave voters have adopted the 'aaah, it'll be alright....' stance, same as with any other potential problems.

I don't see Eddie panicking on this thread. I just see someone pointing out yet another complication in our leaving the Eu.

[Khandro]

Why would it be a problem? Switzerland is independent for energy, why would Britain not be the same - as we already are. Apart from its own nuclear programme, the UK is surrounded by the sea with endless wave and wind power potential and it sits on vast quantities of coal with new oil sources still being discovered.

[Zacs-Master]

Khandro, I'm not saying it will be a problem. I'm saying that it is an example of the hundreds, if not thousands, of complications of leaving the EU. Each one will take time to sort, by a finite number of people. Each one will cost money.

If wind and wave were a viable solution we wouldn't be having new nuclear power stations built.

[jim360]

There's something of a paradox in Brexiteers' complaints about how much being in the EU interfered in their lives, but seem convinced that it basically will take at most a week to clear off and be entirely separate. Really? I'm not suggesting that the UK can't survive without the EU, but the transition isn't exactly going to be smooth, is it?

With respect to NJ's point about how other countries can survive without the EU, that's true, but then they weren't a part of it to start with. I think a good analogy might be to think of conjoined twins, or some such: it's obvious that one person can survive on their own, and doesn't need a second person attached to them, but still: separation of conjoined twins is an operation that's fraught with risks and can go horribly wrong, because they weren't two separate people to start with and had become rather co-dependent as a result. It can also go right, and both twins lead perfectly happy and healthy lives separated, but if you just grabbed a chainsaw and cut the two apart in a few seconds it wouldn't end so well.

But anyway. Euratom is a complication I was only vaguely aware of, and I'm not therefore going to go on about how crap it's going to be now that we are leaving it, but like all other Brexit questions it deserves respect and to be taken seriously.

[Zacs-Master]

Very good analogy Jim. I may, if permitted, borrow it on occasion of more flippancy from the leave voters.

[-Talbot-]

jim
but seem convinced that it basically will take at most a week to clear off and be entirely separate. Really?


A link to anyone who thought that would be fantastic ... hilarious in fact.

jim
but the transition isn't exactly going to be smooth, is it?




It could be a lot smoother if there was a will for that ... but there isn't is there.

[Zacs-Master]

Not from just under half of voters Talbot, no.

[-Talbot-]

Conjoined twins started life as conjoined twins. The UK and the EU didn't.

[jim360]

Well, TTT's often spoken of just cancelling the DD and then we'd be gone, so I guess any one of those myriad posts he's made to that effect will do.

[jim360]

Well, if you could find a way to sew two people together that isn't the Human Centipede, then I'd go with that analogy. I guess I didn't pick that one because maybe if you put the EU in front then that would mean that the UK would be swallowing all of their

[Old_Geezer]

It's not a complication, it's merely one of the things to replace. One makes alternative plans then switches from existing process to new at the relevant point in time. There's no reason it can't go smoothly unless someone's trying to cause problems to overcome. And even then, you just deal with them.

[jim360]

The point I'm trying to make is that you still have to address the issue. That's not the same as saying that it can't be addressed.

[-Talbot-]

The point I'm trying to make is that you still have to address the issue. That's not the same as saying that it can't be addressed.



Best have a word with EDDIE and put his mind at rest then, Jim.

[Zacs-Master]

I can't see one single post from Eddie saying that leaving the EU isn't possible Talbot. Can you find one?

[-Talbot-]

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