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• Loan Guarantee Program Winners - Prediction by the Wall Street Journal

  The Wall Street Journal has made a prediction that the $18.5 billion in loan guarantees first authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 will soon be awarded to the following companies - Unistar Nuclear, NRG, Scana and Southern Company. The biggest beneficiary of the decision could very well be Toshiba since they are the main reactor supplier for three of the above. (Disclosure: I have owned Toshiba... Posted Jun 17 2009, 05:27 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Loan Guarantees, government, WSJ

• Flat Out Lying About Loan Guarantee Costs

  I remain offended and disappointed the the US House and Senate decided to remove the provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that would have enabled an additional $50 Billion in private capital to be made a bit more available to projects using innovative new nuclear power plants. It bugs me even more now that I have proven to myself that the organized opposition to keeping... Posted Mar 08 2009, 06:34 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, Loan Guarantees, opinion, editorial

• Job creation effects of loan guarantee program

  Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat has posted a comment provoking blog entry describing potential job creation effects of an expansion of the DOE nuclear power plant loan guarantee program initially authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. One important point for all decision makers to understand is that the program could and should cost the taxpayers - NOTHING. The key to success is consistent standards... Posted Nov 30 2008, 11:47 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: DOE, Jobs, Loan Guarantees

• In Defense of Nuclear Plant Loan Guarantees

  I know that Atomic Insights is starting to have some of the impact that I want it to have because the blog is getting more and more commentary from outside of the community of people that already like the idea of using atomic power. One of the main reasons I do this is to try to provide an independent voice in what is a very important, and - at least to me - interesting discussion about choices we... Posted Oct 17 2008, 02:22 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Loan Guarantees