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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1215
Energy (Energy policy: nuclear power policy; fast reactor policy; Sizewell inquiry and procurement; structure of nuclear industry) (Part 8)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 339
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83 Nov 9 We Major Energy: Alick Buchanan-Smith letter to Howe ("Energy Council") [report on attendance to represent UK at latest session] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 10 We Major Energy: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("E(NI): Review of UK Atomic Energy Authority") [recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major Energy: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Sir Walter Marshall) [MT declines request for confidential meeting to discuss Sizewell Inquiry; reconstruction of nuclear construction industry; CEGB; policy/management of nuclear processing waste disposal; fast reactor; appointment to post] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 21 Tu Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Outstanding Oil Legislation") [scheduling for legislation delayed by General Election] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 13 Mo Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Gulf Visit: May 1983") [report: oil market; EC import tax; Gulf refinery capacity; oil slick; gas reserves; nuclear power] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 2 Th Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Structure of the Nuclear Industry") ["no insuperable obstacles to a greater measure of competition and private ownership in the longer-term"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 17 Tu Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Sizewell") [Central Electricity Generating Board ordering of forgings in advance of Public Inquiry outcome] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 8 We Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (oil market) ["implications, for the UK and the world economy, of a fall in the oil price"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 16 We Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchquer minute to MT ("Problems of the UK Petrochemicals Sector") [case for subsidies; appeal to EU against unfair French/Italian subsidies] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 18 Mo Major Energy: Howe minute to MT ("Fast Reactor Policy") ["Collaboration with France and Germany... will give us full access to the biggest and most advanced programme of research and development in the world on this subject at reasonable cost"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jan 11 Tu Major Energy: Lawson letter to Tom King (Sizewell Inquiry) [Inspector's request for assistance of Counsel] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 7 Mo Major Energy: Lawson minute to MT ("Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGRs)") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 23 Tu Major Energy: Lawson minute to MT ("Fast Reactor Policy") [announcement by Written Answer] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 27 We Major Energy: Lawson minute to MT ("Fast Reactor Policy") [conclusions & recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jan 28 Fr Major Energy: Lawson minute to MT ("Sizewell Procurement Policy") [scrutiny & control of project's import content during ongoing Public Inquiry] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 4 Th Major Energy: Lawson minute to MT (Fast Reactor policy: uranium stocks) [supply projection] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 22 Mo Major Energy: Lawson PS letter to No.10 ("Britoil Privatisation") [statement to Parliament announcing outcome of share offer] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 13 Fr Major Energy: Lawson PS letter to No.10 (Central Electricity Generating Board procurement) [overseas contracts for Sizewell] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jan 25 Tu Major Energy: Moore letter to 'The Guardian' (Central Electricity Generating Board power stations & nuclear weapons) [refutation of alleged link] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 14 We Major Energy: MT letter to Lord Zuckerman (civil nuclear power in the USA) ["unlikely... that the worst features... will be repeated here... nevertheless I think we... need to keep closely in touch with developments"] [declassified Jan 2014]