Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
Obama signals Nuke loan.
Environmental groups sue and it gets tied up for years.
Yobama shrugs and says “I tried” while winking at the greens.
Probably not true anymore. Under the old system of license approvals, there were multiple opportunities for environmental groups to stick their noses into the process and screw things up.
However, the nuclear industry, and a somewhat sympathetic NRC, have revised the process. Now there is only ONE opportunity for environmentalists to have a say, and the resolution process has limited what they can do.
The success of the licensing process for the new Vogtle plants is an example of how environmentalist powers have been curtailed. Phoney claims and obstructionism for the sake of obstructionism will not hold much water anymore.