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Record W7100449952

DISMANTLING BRITISH ENERGY

2003· article· en· W7100449952 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicClimate Change and Sustainable Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGovernment (linguistics)CreditorElectricityCorporationNuclear powerDispose patternLoanMains electricityLiberalization
DOInot available

Abstract

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The splitting up of nuclear utility British Energy has begun. On February 14, the utility completed the sale of its Canadian joint venture, Bruce Power. It now has until June 30 to dispose of its 50 % interest in Amergen, which owns three US reactors. However, finding a buyer for these is proving tricky. (583.5490) WISE Amsterdam – The sale of Bruce Power is the first stage in the breakup of the crisis-hit utility. British Energy (BE) would have gone bankrupt last year, except that the UK government just won’t allow it to go bankrupt. When liberalization of the UK wholesale electricity market led to falling prices, many generators faced a shortage of cash. BE was particularly hard-hit, since all but one of its power stations are nuclear, and so more expensive than natural gasfired power stations. The situation was made worse by technical problems at some of BE’s nuclear power stations (1). Citing concerns about nuclear safety and security of electricity supply, the UK government stepped in last year with a series of emergency loans (2). The current loan is 650 million pounds (over US$1 billion) and was set to expire on 9 March. However, the Bruce Power sale, plus “standstill ” agreements with “significant creditors ” were enough to persuade the UK government to extend its emergency loan, at a “reduced level”, beyond the 9 March deadline (3). Major BE creditors include BNFL, a state-owned corporation with financial problems of its own, and Enron, whose accounting scandal has made it a household name (4). Bruce sale Creditors must be pleased that BE has raised some cash by selling its stake in Bruce Power, which leases and operates Bruce nuclear generating station in Canada. BE was bought out by three companies. Cameco Corp, one of BE’s partners in Bruce Power, already owned a 15 % stake, but increased this to 31.6 % at a cost of C$209 million (US$137 million). However, not all of this is “new ” money, since the sale price includes part of a cash advance made to Bruce Power in late

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.742
Threshold uncertainty score0.981

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.180
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it