http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/09/nuclear-subsidies-enough-is-enough/
Nuclear Pork - Enough is Enough
Once your power source has reached, say 10% of the electricity grid, let alone 20%, it should be time to cut the cord to government funding.Yet after more than $70 billion dollars in direct subsidies, billions more in insurance subsidies, plus another $13 billion available through the energy policy act of 2005 - Sen. McCain and others still feel that climate legislation must not merely create a price for carbon dioxide that would advantage all carbon free sources of energy, but that we must also throw billions of dollars of more pork at the industry. At some point, infatuation has turned to obsession (see " McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and seven Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion).
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