Jim Rosen of McClatchy’s DC Bureau reports that Congress is worried that the Obama Administration’s decision to shutter Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository could delay a new generation of nuclear reactors from coming on line.
Obama has come out for nuclear power in a big way by offering up hefty govertment guaranteed loans to power companies that want to build new nuclear plants. Now another Obama policy, largely designed by the West Wing politicos to keep Harry Reid in the Senate by abandoningYucca Mountain as a waste storage site despite large amounts of Department of Energy money being put into the facility. For more go here.
Jim Rosen of McClatchy’s DC Bureau reports that Congress is worried that the Obama Administration’s decision to shutter Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository could delay a new generation of nuclear reactors from coming on line.
Obama has come out for nuclear power in a big way by offering up hefty govertment guaranteed loans to power companies that want to build new nuclear plants. Now another Obama policy, largely designed by the West Wing politicos to keep Harry Reid in the Senate by abandoningYucca Mountain as a waste storage site despite large amounts of Department of Energy money being put into the facility. For more go here.
