Unlike professional antinuclear activsits, who make considerably more than I do and promote fear unceratinty and doubt, I am not paid to speak about nuclear power. Also unlike profesional antinuclear activists, I am in the unique position of actually KNOWING WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.

@Dave
You forgot to mention that the government charges a fee of several hundred million dollars for the loan gaurantee and as such, the taxpayers will profit from it.

@Lou
The nuclear industry paid for Yucca Mountian. The industry has paid more than $34 billion to the Federal Government under the agreement reached in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The taxpayers have not paid one yankee dime for Yucca, Lou.

@John
Not one single human being in the United States public has been killed or injured by a nuclear power plant. Not 1. On the contrary, 25,000 people die every year from respiratory illness caused by fossil fuel emissions. The only power source that has offset fossil fuel emissions in this country is nuclear power, which from 1970 to 1990 grew to 20% of our electricity that would otherwise be generated by fossil fuels. Nuclear power has actually SAVED several hundred thousand lives in the United States.

As far as waste storage goes, just look at Oklo, Gabon. Nuclear waste has been safely stored there for over 2 BILLION years. It’s been there since before any multicellular life ever even evolved on this planet. It is an undisputable fact that ever single organism on the Earth has evolved and thrived with nuclear waste safely stored underground. This was done without any engineered safegaurd or containment apparatus. If Mother Nature can do it safely by chance, then we can do it.

Here’s what a loan guarantee means: if the nuclear industry defaults on its loans, the taxpayer has to cover the cost.

If they don’t default on the loans, the private lenders get all the interest.

A clearer but no less accurate name for “loan guarantee” would be “guaranteed bailout”.

Privatizing profits and socializing losses seems to be one thing that both corporate-sponsored parties can agree on.

Isn’t it true that nuclear power requires LOANS or LOAN GAURANTEES? As in, they PAY IT BACK…with interest!

Are you not also calling for actual SUBSIDIES for wind and solar (which coincidentally produce no power 70% of the time, even in the Sunshine State)?

Why do you lie and call a loan a subsidy and then lie by omission by ignoring the fact the you are actually advocating subsidies for wind and solar?

Perhaps being a bit less disingenuous would aid you cause?