"The nuclear business is one that makes people nervous," he said.

Toshiba estimates its nuclear business will triple by 2015 because of the deal.

In 1987 he sold the company's nuclear businesses.

It has been in the nuclear business for more than 50 years, he said.

Even that is new for the nuclear business.

This has set the stage for an overhaul in the way the Government conducts its nuclear business.

He suggested that it was a drag rather than a benefit for Russia's nuclear business.

Although they already own one per cent of Areva, the largest nuclear business in the world.

But the fortunes of the nuclear business have been defined by many factors that aren't so conspicuous.

But no one denies that the agency holds extraordinary power over the fate of the nuclear business in this country.