Urge your U.S. Senators and Representative to oppose nuclear power subsidies in pending legislation

Former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford recently testified at a Capitol Hill briefing that every $10 billion in taxpayer-backed nuclear loan guarantees represents a $100 financial risk for each and every household in the United States. For this and many other reasons, Beyond Nuclear has joined a coalition of environmental groups in a letter to House Appropriators urging opposition to $9 billion in additional nuclear power loan guarantees tacked onto the pending emergency supplemental war funding bill. Taxpayers for Common Sense has protested the inappropriateness of including energy loan guarantees on a war funding bill, as have politically conservative voices such as the Heritage Foundation and Henry Sokolksi of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Phone House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-WI) at (202) 225-2771 to urge that nuclear loan guarantees be removed from the bill; call your own U.S. Representative via the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to urge they oppose it as well. At the same time, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will decide, perhaps within the next week, whether or not to allow the Kerry-Lieberman "American Power Act" to move forward to the Senate floor for a vote. NRDC has published a strong objection to the nuclear power industry wish list included in the proposed legislation. UCS has objected to the bill's "harmful nuclear power provisions." And FOE has blasted the bill for "handing out billions in giveaways to some of the worst industrial polluters in the country," including the nuclear power industry. Call your two U.S. Senators at the Capitol Switchboard number above and request that they urge Sen. Reid to not grant Senate floor time to such a dirty energy industry subsidy bill.