It makes sense to preserve skills, but, since export demand will not fully recover, many of these people will end up unemployed.
"It would be unwise to renationalise the industry," said the Telegraph, "but bridging loans might sensibly be considered in order to preserve skills and capacity until a buyer is found or the market recovers".
There are other answers: to provide jobs and preserve skills; to sustain what's left in Britain of high-tech shipbuilding and nuclear technology; to make the nation feel more secure in an increasingly dangerous world, where the number of countries with nuclear weapons looks certain to grow.
Eastern European preserving skills proved very useful in the region's harsh winters, and vinegar and brine still run through the veins of true midwesterners.
The trust said it bought the Grade II-listed building in June 2011 to save 50 jobs and preserve skills.
The auditor said the focus on nuclear in EDF's foreign investments was a way to preserve its skill base at home, which it said was acceptable, as long as this was not more a defensive than an offensive stance.
Many composers were thus decreasingly concerned to preserve the skill of taut, brilliant, and dramatic symphonic development that had so eminently distinguished the masters at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, culminating in Beethoven's chamber music and symphonies.
This is so because to exert effort is no longer necessary to preserve the skill level across individuals belonging to the same dynasty.
Last November, the R&A, which was set up as a distinct entity separate from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 2004, and the USGA proposed a ban on players anchoring putters to their body to help preserve the "skill and challenge" of putting.
To preserve combat skills, the Army arranged for intensive combat training before the deployment.
"He has got to look at how we can preserve the skills base in Portsmouth and the greater Portsmouth area.
