Nuclear Subsidies - An Outline

Read this brief overview of nuclear subsidies prepared by Kevin Kamps for a May 2009 forum hosted by the League of Women Voters in Maryland.

Energy Bank could fund nuclear power

On June 16, 2009 a coalition of 17 national environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, wrote a letter to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee urging that "Clean Energy Deployment Administration" funding be prioritized for energy technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions most quickly and cost effectively, thus barring incredibly slow and astronomically expensive new atomic reactors. See the letter here.

Help stop new nuclear reactors. To learn more about the similarities and differences between the U.S. House and Senate versions of the so-called "Clean Energy Bank" proposals, see the following analysis by Michele Boyd of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

May 2009 group letter to Congress opposing amendments to the 2009 Energy Bill that would subsidize nuclear power

The group letter, signed by Beyond Nuclear, urges Members to oppose the Murkowski amendments and all amendments that would further subsidize the nuclear industry or establish reprocessing and "temporary" storage of radioactive waste.