Anti-Nuclear Renaissance: A Powerful but Partial and Tentative Victory Over Atomic Energy

Common Dreams by Harvey Wasserman | Jan. 5, 2008 (Special Report)

The Appropriations Bill finally passed both houses of Congress in late December. But the legislative standing and ultimate outcome for the loan guarantees is murky at best, with legal and procedural experts still debating over what exactly has been done.

Ostensibly, the DOE has been authorized to grant $18.5 billion in reactor loan guarantees over the next two years, plus another $2 billion for uranium enrichment. There is also some $10 billion ... Full Story »

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Topics: U.S. Congress, Energy, Money and Politics
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jan 6, 2008 - 10:58 PM PST
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 6, 2008

The story reports the federal nuke corporate welfare provisions that were passed by congress, but conveys a vague and complex set of possible outcomes from the bill. Interesting questions are raised, but a crisper understanding of the reasons for the uncertainty in the outcome of the guarantees for nukes would help.

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 by Norman Rogers - Jan. 12, 2008

Obviously this is advocacy journalism. The big problem the greens have is that nuclear energy is the one economic and proven method of generating large quantities of energy without emissions of CO2. Some of the green organizations are moving toward endorsing nuclear energy for that reason.

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