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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.
A Finnish local authority has approved an application to expand the country’s Olkiluoto final disposal facility to accommodate spent fuel from a proposed third unit at the Loviisa nuclear plant.
British construction company Costain Group said its profits for the first half of 2009 fell a third but its order book had grown 25 percent over the last year, partly because of opportunities in the nuclear energy sector.
Nearly 20 million US dollars (about 14 million euro) has been awarded to institutions in the US to boost nuclear education and expand the workforce in nuclear power and nuclear-related disciplines.
The sale of Nukem Technologies to Atomstroyexport will boost Russia’s presence in the “strategically significant” European market, according to a Russian think tank.
Unit 6 of Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture was restarted today, just over two years after a major earthquake hit the area.
Preparatory work has begun for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, with the country’s nuclear safety authority saying the aim is to complete the plant by 2018.
The US Department of Commerce has approved a long-term contract for deliveries by Russia’s Techsnabexport (Tenex) of low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel to the Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Nuclear Group.
The European Commission said on 14 August 2009 that Romanian scientists have developed a new technology for reinforcing the wall of a fusion reactor to resist hot plasma.
