Nuclear Economics

Nuclear subsidies in the House climate and Senate energy bills. A fact sheets from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

List of existing subsidies and incentives for constructing new reactors (from R&D to waste management and everything in-between).

New study finds that it would cost taxpayers and ratepayers $1.9 trillion to $4.1 trillion more over the life of 100 new nuclear reactors than it would to generate the same electricity from a combination of more energy efficiency and renewables.

Letter to President Obama from national environmental groups urging no more nuclear loan guarantees.

Nuclear Loan Guarantees: Another Taxpayer Bailout Ahead? New report from Union of Concerned Scientists warns that the risk to taxpayers of loan guarantees for new reactors could total $360 Billion to $1.6 Trillion.

243 grassroots groups/small businesses urge Senate to drop nuclear/coal loan guarantees from stimulus bill.

Letter from Washington-based groups in opposition to $50 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors and "clean coal" technologies.

PSR analysis of the huge new nuclear subsidies—including unlimited taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors–in the “Gang of 10” energy bill, due for a Senate vote in mid-September. And you thought the Gang of 10 bill was only about offshore oil drilling……Stay tuned here for more info.

The Brave New World of Nuclear Power Economics, an article by NIRS executive director Michael Mariotte