OPENING ADDRESS

It gives me very great pleasure to present the opening address to this Conference on ferritic steels for fast reactor steam generators.

In many countries of the world the nuclear industries are under sustained attack from environmental groups and for many of us it is difficult to get authorisation to go ahead with our projects. It is therefore very encouraging for me to see you - the experts in your parti‐cular subject - getting on with the task of understanding and overcoming the real problems of nuclear power and, in particular, steam generators which are such vital components in the fast reactor.