Thorium Power is now Lightbridge
From Nuclear Street:
Thorium Power, Ltd., a leading developer of non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology and provider of comprehensive advisory services for civil nuclear energy programs, today announced that the Company’s name change to Lightbridge Corporation has been formalized.
Lightbridge website is available here.
E.ON is talking energy
E.ON has created a YouTube channel to try to engage the public in a debate on future energy policy. It has also placed adverts in the major press, including the Sunday Times, with the following catchy slogan:
I want affordable energy
I want reliable energy
I want low-carbon energy
Don’t we want all three?
Quite good, I’m sure you’ll agree. The phrase ‘reliable energy’ has been slowly gaining ground amongst the nuclear community, who wish to set out their stall in competition with other sustainable sources such as wind, which have more vocal proponents in the mainstream press, particularly amongst the green community. Of course -- as anyone who thinks about for more than a few moments will be forced to agree -- if a whole country is powered with, say, windmills, then you need some sort of energy storage system for when the wind isn’t blowing. New Miliband advisor David MacKay has worked out that the UK would have to turn Scotland into a giant battery for this idea to work, with every major lake used as a pump storage scheme. Nuclear proponents speak of reactors as a way of providing that essential baseload supply in the UK without needing this enormous change in national infrastructure.
Make up your own mind and join the debate!
Jobs Posting: 27th August
A number of postdoctoral post fundings are presently available at JRC Petten. From the JRC website:
Located in Petten (The Netherlands) and Ispra (Italy), the Institute for Energy (IE) is one of the seven institutes that constitute the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
The mission of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. As a service of the European Commission, the JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national.
More information here: http://ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs/grantholders.php