Energy Sec Unaware That Nuclear Loans Have 50 Percent Risk of Default

Mother Jones by Kate Sheppard | Feb. 16, 2010 (News Report)

Chu said he was not aware of a Congressional Budget Office study showing that the chances of default on these loans are "very high—well above 50 percent."

"I don't know of the CBO report," Chu told reporters during a conference call on Tuesday. "We don't believe the chance of default is 50 percent. We believe it's far less than that." The first loan guarantee, worth $8.33 billion, was awarded to two proposed reactors to be built by Southern ... Full Story »

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Topics: Obama Administration, Finance, Nuclear Power
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Feb 16, 2010 - 12:55 PM PST
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 by Jim Lang - Feb. 21, 2010

This is a negative article eventually forced to print a DOE rebuttal.

This has the same credibility as articles that claim that there are no issues with nuclear power.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 17, 2010

Informed experts are quoted in reporting this astounding bit of economic ignorance on the part of Chu.

The Obama loan guarantee is another give-away to corporations as corporate campaign contributions explode. Privatizing profit and socializing risk with taxpayer money is bad policy when there are better energy options.

the economics of the nuclear industry look so dicey that Wall Street banks—no strangers to high-risk investments—have for several years balked at financing new plants ... More »

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Tanya J. Maurer
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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Feb. 17, 2010
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 by Gianni Ferrara - Feb. 18, 2010
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