Who is Mr. FEDERAL? How big are his pockets? How is it possible that the nuclear
(or was it unclear) industry, so efficient and competitive, has to ask Mr.
FEDERAL for MORE support?

Pedro from Madrid

--- In energyresources@yahoogroups.com, Frank Holland <frankholland3@...> wrote:
>
> US nuclear industry calls for more federal support. The Nuclear Energy
> Institute (NEI), which represents the nuclear
> industry in the US, is calling for a comprehensive package of federal
> policies, financing and tax incentives to support a major
> expansion. The NEI wants to see the creation of a Clean Energy
> Deployment Administration to act as a permanent financing
> mechanism for new plants. It is also calling for significant tax
> incentives to support industry development.
> However, the Union of Concerned Scientists says the plans amount to a
> request for US$100 billion (Euro 67 bn) in new federal
> loan guarantees on top of the US$110 billion loan guarantees already
> agreed by Congress. “It is truly staggering that an
> industry this big and this mature can claim to need so much government
> help to survive and thrive in a world in which
> technologies that don’t emit global warming pollution will benefit,”
> says Ellen Vancko of the UCS. “If the nuclear industry gets
> its way, Christmas will come early this year �" thanks to US taxpayers.”
> Energy efficiency news, 2 November 2009
>
> Looks like the nukes are so successful and advanced that they need
> bailing out!
>
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> Frank
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