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• Obama supports two Georgia reactors

  He approves $8.3 billion in the first federal loan guarantees for nuclear energy President Barack Obama finally came out in support of nuclear energy after a year of apparent indifference. This past week he approved $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees for two new Westinghouse AP1000 1,150 MW nuclear reactors at Southern's Vogtle site. In doing so he also extended a hand across the partisan... Posted Feb 22 2010, 08:43 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: loan guarantees, nuclear, AP1000, obama, support, obama administration

• Obama names two for NRC

  The commissioner seats have been open for some time Both appointments have been rumored for some time.  Last July the New York Times published an assessment by Climate Wire. Business groups were reported to be worried that with the appointment to the NRC of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's former aide Gregory Jaczko , who brings a tilt toward anti-nuclear green groups, that further appointments... Posted Oct 10 2009, 02:08 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, nuclear blogs, obama, seats

• Obama’s climate policy needs nuclear energy

  American Nuclear Society public affairs specialist says the White House understands it is necessary While some advocates for nuclear energy in the U.S. have tied its future to the development of climate change legislation, an astute participant in the process and observer of all things nuclear thinks this is not the most productive path. The American public does not understand "baseload demand"... Posted Aug 12 2009, 04:03 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear, legislation, policy, obama, climate

• Show me the money

  Senate hearing is long on sound bites, short on financial commitment   In a rare display of political firepower, the Obama Administration sent four of its leading lights this week to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the subject of controlling greenhouse gases.  As everyone knows, the House passed a massive bill that lumbered its way through a muddy mine... Posted Jul 11 2009, 07:09 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: obama, senate, public works

• President’s Science Advisor calls for new nuclear plants

  John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Advisor, says we can do it In a ground breaking speech [ full text ] [ slides ]to the American Association  for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ) and April 30, in Washington, DC, John Holdren, (left) President Obama’s Science Advisor said If nuclear energy is to make a big dent globally the links between nuclear energy technology and nuclear weapons technology... Posted May 01 2009, 08:23 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: obama, John Holdren, AAAS

• Obama urges nuclear arms reduction

  The President’s high profile speech is upstaged by a North Korean missile U.S. President Barack Obama went to the Czech Republic on  April 5 and 41 years after Soviet tanks crushed the bloom of “ Prague Spring ” stood in the middle of that city and called for all nations to strive to rid the world of nuclear arms.  Reuters reported that it had echoes of famous cold war speeches like that... Posted Apr 05 2009, 08:18 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: obama, Czech, weapons

• Idaho Cleanup Project gets $468M

  Funds will remediate hazardous & nuclear waste at INL creating over 500 jobs. President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package showed up in Idaho this week with a whopping $468 million for cleanup of hazardous and nuclear waste in eastern Idaho. The Department of Energy approved the funding drawn from a $6 billion line item included in the package passed by Congress earlier this year. A portion... Posted Apr 01 2009, 06:43 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Idaho Cleanup Project, obama, hazardous, nuclear waste

• Obama’s blind spot on nuclear energy

  Wind and solar are not reliable energy sources for base load demand It is becoming clear the Obama administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have a major blind spot when it comes to nuclear energy.  The almost casual defeat of $50 billion additional loan guarantees for nuclear energy in the economic stimulus bill reveals a tepid and almost cold political calculus.  It tells the... Posted Feb 22 2009, 06:54 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: politics and nuclear power, policy, obama