"NRG Energy, one of the City of San Antonio’s partners at the South Texas Project nuclear facility in Matagorda County, announced today it will idle payments into a planned two-reactor nuclear expansion on the Texas coast," writes Greg Harman this week in the San Antonio Current. The NRF-Toshiba project which would add two reactors to the South Texas nuclear site, is dependent on federal loan guarantees - a burden likely to fall to taxpayers. But the loan guarantees have so far failed to materialize causing this latest retreat from the nuclear energy frontier.