[Ben Mugged]

This is a good start.

[villagerjoel]

I’m baffled as to why something that seems to make sense is coming out of our current government. Can someone explain how this will actually end up hurting our country? Otherwise it just defies logic.

[Wooly]

Where are they building them, Iran or North Korea? Because if you think they will get built here you are mistaken, so this is money down the drain.

[Ben Mugged]

Seventeen companies applied for $122 billion in federal loan guarantees for 21 proposed reactors. The $18.5 billion chunk of loan guarantees for nuclear power was part of energy legislation adopted during the Bush administration.

Don't credit the current administration for this.....

[jonno]

This is another Scrappleface - right??

I can hardly believe this govt. is in any way promoting nuclear power.

Maybe pigs will yet fly...

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Brookhaven]

Obama did repeatedly say he favored nuclear power on the campaign trail.

Case of even a stopped clock being right twice a day.

[LasVegasMac]

What the.....?

Who....?

wow.

[napscoordinator]

Why can’t the nuclear plant owners pay for them? Are all nuclear power plants owned by the government??? Serious question.

[Two Kids' Dad]

I want a nuclear power plant. I promise not to weaponize anything.

“Hey 0bama, hook me up, will ya?”

FReepers will get a 20% discount on their electric bill with 5% of the payments going directly to JimRob and FreeRepublic. But don’t tell the federal regulators, okay?

[Publius6961]

But foes of nuclear power argue that the plants remain too expensive to build without federal assistance and that energy efficiency and renewable energy resources offer better alternatives.

Foes of the needs of other people have always used delay and suits to achieve their self-created argument that plants are "too expensive."

The jig is up, and the irrational inactivity of the last 30 years proves beyond any rational doubt that lack of energy independence is a major ingredient in our current national crisis.

The president has the power to declare a national emergency and make the luddite greenie idiots irrelevant.

I wish he would do just that.