They point out that 11 of the 27 EU countries have never had nuclear power plants, while Italy has abolished its own and Belgium, Germany, Spain and Sweden are working on phasing theirs out.
Work on phase one finished this week, with most of the external work now done and the building water-tight.
If both parties could work together on phased cuts, reform would be much less painful, says Ms MacGuineas; if they do not, future cuts to social budgets may have to be much sharper.
Before Hank and his students get a chance to excavate the site, however, construction crews move in to start work on Phase 2 of a nearby casino complex.
5. Art Winfree's work on phase singularities in biological rhythms, and his wide-ranging synthesis of research by others, can be found in his magnum opus, "The Geometry of Biological Time," 2nd edition (Springer, 2001).
He adds that he hopes to start work on phase two in early 2016: "We will see exactly how it works, and if we can improve the design at all, but it will be more or less a matter of copying and pasting this one into three more spots around the lake".
Work on Phase 2, he said, will most likely start in 2013 and is expected to total as much as 45,000 square meters of retail and leisure space, 20,000 square meters of office space and 20,000 square meters of residential space.
Work on Phase One of the project, from London to Birmingham, is due to start in 2017.
This contrasts with previous work on phase inversion, which was conducted in complex flow fields with large temperature gradients.
This has led to a great deal of work on phase-locking and central pattern generation in neural circuitry (see, for example [13]).
