Still time to block $9 billion expansion to nuclear loan guarantees -- call Congress today!

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http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2010/6/9/still-time-to-block-9-billion-expansion-to-nuclear-loan-guar.html

Still time to block $9 billion expansion to nuclear loan guarantees -- call Congress today!

As Harvey Wasserman reports in "Apocalypse in the Gulf now (oil) & next (nukes)," we still have a week to urge our U.S. Representatives to remove $9 billion in new loan guarantees for atomic reactor construction from the emergency war and disaster relief funding bill before the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. See the environmental group coalition letter to House Members, as well Taxpayers for Common Sense's own letter to the U.S. House, objecting to these new atomic reactor loan guarantees. Check to see if your U.S. Representative serves on the Appropriations Committee. If they do, phone them via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at [phone] and urge them to do all they can to block this atomic industry give-away at taxpayer risk. Even if your U.S. Representative does not serve on that committee, call them anyway, and urge that they weigh in with their colleagues on the committee to oppose this massive subsidy. Also, call U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-WI) at [phone] to urge this radioactive provision be removed from the bill. See Beyond Nuclear's earlier alert on this issue for additional background information, as well as our original post when Politico broke this story.

Date June 9, 2010

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1. The CEO of Entergy says nuclear remains too costly: "the numbers just don't work."

As Al Gore has pointed out, "We have all the tools we need to solve 3 or 4 climate crises"
New nuclear plants are not needed, and the money could be spent on alternatives which are faster and cheaper.
None of the major environmental organizations support nuclear energy as a solution to global warming.

Even the CEO's of some of the largest nuclear power companies in the US say new nuclear is too expensive:
The CEO of Entergy says nuclear remains too costly: "the numbers just don't work."
The CEO of Exelon says "Time isn't really right for a substantial increase in the nuclear fleet. Neither the politics nor the economics are there yet."

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2. kick. nt