UK and Scottish governments ready to fall out over nuclear

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The UK and Scottish governments are ready to have their first major fall out over nuclear powerstations.

The UK Government has released a list of 11 sites, of where they could erect new nuclear powerstations in around England and Wales, three of them on, or near the Scottish border.

Scotland's government is against anything nuclear, and have been investing heavily in renewable technologies to power the country.

If the UK government picked a place in Scotland, the Scottish government can block the planning and knock it back.

The UK government has the power to overrule the Scots, a clause created when Scotland was granted devolution, but this is something they have never done.

If they ever did it would make a mockery of the system, and devolution and this is somewhere I don't believe anyone would want.

This would change if the Scottish National Party (SNP) were to lose the elections in 2011, as the other major parties in Scotland support the idea of nuclear.

Another possible fallout between the UK and Scotland is that the SNP are trying to push though a referendum, a yes or no vote if Scotland should have independence and pull out of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.