Nuclear subsidies in the House climate and Senate energy bills. A fact sheets from Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Nuclear subsidies in the House climate and Senate energy bills. A fact sheets from Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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List of existing subsidies and incentives for constructing new reactors (from R&D to waste management and everything in-between).
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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.
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The Brave New World of Nuclear Power Economics, an article by NIRS executive director Michael Mariotte
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The Department of Energy has issued a solicitation for applications for its loan guarantee program authorized by Congress in late 2007. This solicitation is for $30.5 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees, and includes $18.5 billion for new atomic reactors, $2 billion for front-end nuclear fuel cycle facilities (uranium enrichment plant), and $10 billion for renewable energy, energy efficiency and transmission projects. You can read the reactor solicitation here; the fuel cycle solicitation here; and the renewables/efficiency/transmission solicitation here.
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