Wiring up all the locks of, say, a nuclear power plant, university campus, airport, or military base therefore becomes extremely costly.
9.13am: William Hague, confirmed as foreign secretary in the new government, told the Today programme that a document setting out the terms of the coalition would be published later today and would name areas – including the married tax allowance, nuclear power and university funding – where the Lib Dems will be allowed to abstain from government measures.
He was a nuclear scientist and university lecturer.
Based on the comments in these meetings and on my personal research experience on nuclear physics at university I would like to make a few comments in considering the energy problem in the 21st century.
Under his leadership, General Atomics developed TRIGA, a nuclear reactor for universities and laboratories.
He also listed university tuition fees, nuclear power, nuclear disarmament and supporting the people of Gaza as priority areas in which the Liberal Democrats would want to influence Government policy.
In 2004 Dr Taleyarkhan moved to Purdue University in Indiana, where Lefteri Tsoukalas, head of nuclear engineering at the university, had been trying to repeat his experiments.
In their first interview, the inspectors talked to a scientist who had been involved in the nuclear program in his university laboratory.
Tatjana Jevremovic, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the university, told Nature that Dr Taleyarkhan would sometimes claim that the experiment was producing positive results when she could see no such thing.
Obama, who has been committed to nuclear disarmament since his university days, may be tempted to take another step next year and press the Senate on a comprehensive test ban treaty.
She is now the scientific director of Dalton, where she is responsible for coordinating nuclear research at the university; she also holds a chair in chemistry.
