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The Clean Air Act, our only regulatory tool to cut carbon emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change, is under attack. To protect our nation's health, we need your help!
Both the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 (ACELA) in the Senate and Subtitle J-Nuclear and Advanced Technologies of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) in the House make changes to the Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program and establish a new Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA). The purpose of CEDA in both bills is to “promote access to affordable financing for accelerated and widespread deployment” of clean energy, energy infrastructure, energy efficiency, and manufacturing technologies. Nuclear power and coal are eligible under the definition of “clean energy technologies” in both versions. Neither bill gives U.S. taxpayers a share of the venture’s success, even though taxpayers are taking by far the largest risk if the project fails.
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Please contact Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and the managers of the Title XVII Loan Guarantee program to tell them that issuing conditional loan guarantees would risk billions of taxpayer funds on unlicensed and uneconomical new reactors.
A government-sponsored study of childhood cancer in the proximity of German nuclear power plants (German acronym KiKK) found that children < 5 years living < 5 km from plant exhaust stacks had twice the risk for contracting leukemia as those residing > 5 km. Read more »
The nuclear industry seeks to revitalize itself by manipulating the public’s concerns about global warming and energy insecurity to promote nuclear power as a clean and safe way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce dependence on foreign energy resources. Read more »
A fact sheet on the current subsidies and incentives for new nuclear reactors. Read more »