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In focus with Sir Bernard Ingham
Up to our ears in debt but value for money still has no appeal
Well, now we know how much Chancellor George Osborne is committed to value for money in energy policy. Not much. True, in his autumn statement he halved subsidies for solar panels but only because their cost has come down substantially. He also brought in £250m energy cost relief for intensive energy users who are supposed to be a prime target for reducing carbon emissions, thereby complicating energy policy still further while usefully helping to retain heavy industry in the UK.
19 Sept (NucNet): Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said today that it
plans a joint venture company with US utility Luminant for the
potential development of two new reactor units at the Comanche Peak
nuclear power plant in Texas.
19 Sept (NucNet): The US Department of Energy's Idaho National
Laboratory (INL) says a team of its scientists reached a major
milestone earlier this month with the successful production of hydrogen
through High-Temperature Electrolysis (HTE).
19 Sept (NucNet): The Japan Atomic Energy Agency and the Korea Atomic
Energy Research Institute have agreed to cooperate on research into the
peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
17 Sept (NucNet): Possible British energy shortages cannot be solved by
developing renewable sources, but need a much bigger nuclear component
with the country's new-build programme starting urgently, a new report
suggests.
15 Sept (NucNet): Mohamed ElBaradei will not seek a further term of
office as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) when his current term ends on 30 November 2009.
15 Sept (NucNet): The next US president should support the creation of
a multi-billion-dollar package to finance and drive private investment
in carbon-free energy infrastructure including new nuclear power plants
during his first 100 days in office, according to a new report.
15 Sept (NucNet): The foreign affairs minister of the Philippines has
held talks in Vienna, Austria with the head of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA).
12 Sept (NucNet): President George Bush has formally submitted an
agreement for approval by the US Congress for proposed civil nuclear
cooperation with India.
12 Sept (NucNet): Engineers at the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) in the US are exploring the possibility of
nuclear fission to provide power sources when astronauts return to the
Moon and establish a lunar outpost.
