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摘要

There are many questions hanging over the future of nuclear power in the UK, and in particular over energy company EDF's plans to start building four new power stations in 2012. But Alan Cumming can't really answer any of them. As deputy director of procurement, construction and project controls, rather than planning, public policy, great unknowns or hopeless causes, Cumming isn't best placed to talk about the implications of the new coalition government, the odds of securing planning permission after the abolition of the Infrastructure Planning Commission or when EDF really needs a decision on a floorprice for carbon credits to determine whether the plants are financially viable. Fortunately, he can talk in quite some detail about a question that is of great importance to Building's readers: how they can get involved in building them?