<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://www.nukefree.org" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <channel> <title>NukeFree.org - Loan Guarantees</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/taxonomy/term/11/0</link> <description></description> <language>en</language> <item> <title>Obama's Nuke-Powered Drone Strike on America's Energy Future</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/obamas-nuke-powered-drone-strike-americas-energy-future</link> <description><p> &nbsp; </p> <p> So the &quot;all the above&quot; energy strategy now deems we dump another $6.5 billion in bogus loan guarantees down the atomic drain. </p> <p> Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced finalization of hotly contested taxpayer handouts for the two Vogtle reactors being built in Georgia. Another $1.8 billion waits to be pulled out of your pocket and poured down the radioactive sink hole. </p> <p> A nuke-powered drone strike on fiscal sanity. </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/obamas-nuke-powered-drone-strike-americas-energy-future">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:10:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">5694 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Why Should Nuclear Financing Guarantees Cost Less than Student or Home Loans?</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/why-should-nuclear-financing-guarantees-cost-less-student-or-home-loans</link> <description><p> The Department of Energy wants to give the Southern Company a nuclear power loan guarantee at better interest rates than you can get on a student loan. And unlike a home mortgage, there may be no down payment. </p> <p> Why? </p> <p> The terms DOE is offering the builders of the Vogtle atomic reactors have only become partially public through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. </p> <p> We still may not know all the details. </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/why-should-nuclear-financing-guarantees-cost-less-student-or-home-loans">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:08:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">4548 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Hold that "Hot" Fukushima Sushi!</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/hold-hot-fukushima-sushi</link> <description><p> &nbsp; </p> <p> We all knew it was coming. </p> <p> Radioactive tuna has been caught off the coast of California. The fingerprint of cesium 137 is unmistakably from the exploded reactors at Fukushima. </p> <p> But Fukushima's hot hands are also on a very welcome debate still stalemating China's plans to build more than 30 new reactors. Fierce No Nukes opposition continues to escalate in India. Reactor cancellations have spread throughout Europe. </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/hold-hot-fukushima-sushi">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">4458 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Will You Pay as New Reactors Jump $900 Million in Just 3 Months?</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/will-you-pay-new-reactors-jump-900-million-just-3-months</link> <description><p> The projected price for Georgia's Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months....<a href="/nytimes-sec-filing-confirms-vogtles-900m-cost-hike">and that's just for starters</a>. </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/will-you-pay-new-reactors-jump-900-million-just-3-months">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:39:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">4395 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Nuclear Power Industry has Melted in Japan and France</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/nuclear-power-industry-has-melted-japan-and-france</link> <description><p> <br /> There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2011, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet. </p> <p> But for the first time in 42 years, a country at the core of global reactor electricity is producing none of its own. </p> <p> Worldwide, there are fewer than 400 operating reactors for the first time since Chernobyl, a quarter-century ago. </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/nuclear-power-industry-has-melted-japan-and-france">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:15:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">4379 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Obama's Atomic Solyndra?</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/obamas-atomic-solyndra-0</link> <description><div> <br /> </div> <div> </div> <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000" class="Apple-style-span">The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama---and us. <br /> <br /> His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders who cannot handle the standard terms of a loan agreement. <br /> <br /> Or he could defend basic financial procedures and stand up for the future of the American economy. <br /> <p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/obamas-atomic-solyndra-0">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:57:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">4312 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>America's 2 New Nukes Are on the Brink of Death</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/americas-2-new-nukes-are-brink-death</link> <description><p> &nbsp; </p> <p> The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons. </p> <p> If they go under, there will almost certainly be no new reactors built here. </p> <p> The much mythologized &quot;nuclear renaissance&quot; will be officially buried, and the US can take a definitive leap toward a green-powered future that will actually work and that won't threaten the continent with radioactive contamination. </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/americas-2-new-nukes-are-brink-death">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">4261 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Where Occupy & No Nukes Merge---And WIN!</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/where-occupy-no-nukes-merge-and-win</link> <description><p> &nbsp; </p> <p> The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing---and saving---the world. </p> <p> Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed. </p> <p> A long-term agenda seems to be emerging: social justice, racial and gender equality, ecological survival, true democracy, an end to war, and so much more. &quot;When the power of love overcomes the love of power,&quot; said Jimi Hendrix, &quot;the world will know peace.&quot; </p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/where-occupy-no-nukes-merge-and-win">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:36:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">3789 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Will a Failed Solar Loan Guarantee Help Kill New Nukes?</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/will-failed-solar-loan-guarantee-help-kill-new-nukes</link> <description><p><br />Republicans up in arms about the infamous failed federal $535 million loan guarantee for the Solyndra solar panel producer are finally tasked to apply the same standards to nuclear power. <br /> <br />If that happens, there will be no more commercial reactors built in the United States. <br /> <br />Unlike solar power, atomic energy cannot attract private capital. So if the GOP succeeds in dragging down the entire federal energy loan program, the &quot;Nuclear Renaissance&quot; could be definitively done. <br /> <p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/will-failed-solar-loan-guarantee-help-kill-new-nukes">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:50:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">3722 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Green Music Returns to Confront Atomic Energy</title> <link>http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/green-music-returns-confront-atomic-energy</link> <description><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="line-height: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000" class="Apple-style-span">Amidst a life-and-death struggle to finally shut the nuclear energy industry, the power of green music flows again this Sunday. </span></p><p><a href="http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/green-music-returns-confront-atomic-energy">read more</a></p></description> <category domain="http://www.nukefree.org/blog-tags/loan-guarantees">Loan Guarantees</category> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:01:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>HarveyWasserman</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="false">3532 at http://www.nukefree.org</guid> </item> </channel> </rss>