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# Nuclear confusion
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## Telegraph View: More clarity is needed over the Government's plans for
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more power stations.
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7:51PM BST 13 May 2010
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[Comments][1]
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They cannot yet be considered cracks, but one or two hairline fractures have
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started to appear in the new coalition Government, despite the best endeavours
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of its leaders to minimise points of conflict. The most pronounced involves
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the future source of Britain's energy supply.
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This matters. It took many years of dithering before the last Labour
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government eventually revived the nuclear power programme. Without such a
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programme, there is a grave risk of energy shortages in the medium term. We
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will also be vulnerable to sudden disruption of oil and gas supplies from the
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Middle East or Russia, for reasons either of political instability or
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blackmail. The Conservatives in opposition were emphatic that these dangers
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must be averted and in their election manifesto proposed 10 new nuclear power
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stations in the next 20 years (though without public subsidy), ensuring
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security of supply and a zero-carbon source of electricity.
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So the appointment of Chris Huhne to take charge of the Department of Energy
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and Climate Change came as something of a surprise. Mr Huhne, a Liberal
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Democrat, has made no secret of his dislike for nuclear power, an antipathy
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shared by many in his party. The coalition's draft agreement allows a plan for
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more power stations to be brought before Parliament, but lets the Lib Dems
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speak against it and then to abstain in a vote. This is being hailed as an
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example of how previously implacable differences can be bridged in the
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interests of stable government. But it has unknowable consequences. Decisions
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about investment in nuclear power need to be made this year, yet the coalition
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risks reintroducing the uncertainty that had previously been removed. The new
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ministry has promised to govern in the national interest. In which case, this
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lack of clarity cannot be sustained for long.
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