There are doubts about Dept. of Energy Sec. Chu regarding support to nuclear energy.  Nearly all of his public actions to date have lacked focus related to this.

However, Sec. Chu sent a letter to the White House’s OMB in December 2009 complaining about the [OMB] recommendation to curtail advanced reactor research and implementation.   Is the OMB independent or is it listening to the President?  Based on Chu’s rant, the OMB is working counter to the DOE and the necessary efforts to have a full portfolio of useful solutions for energy and used nuclear fuel streams.  Several commentators* have picked up on this internal high level dirty laundry.  Put together with other contradictory messages from the White House (http://kandg.org/WPBlogger/?p=272), one could consider the present administration to be governing in a Byzantine** manner.

*http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2429274/posts
*http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/15/white-house-chews-on-chus-nuclear-budget/

**of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation <a Byzantine power struggle> b : intricately involved : labyrinthine <rules of Byzantine complexity>