End the nuclear loan program now

July 26, 2011

The U.S. Congress this week is considering $1 TRILLION or more in budget cuts as part of its debt ceiling package, yet President Obama still wants an additional $36 Billion--on top of $18.5 Billion already approved by Congress--in taxpayer money for loans to wealthy nuclear utilities to build new nuclear reactors in the U.S? 

This program must be ended--not expanded! Please tell your Senators to end this program entirely now. The world's third and fourth largest economies--Japan and Germany--are turning their backs on nuclear power and moving ahead with a new energy future based on safe, clean renewable energy and energy efficiency. So are Italy and Switzerland. The U.S. can and should do the same.

The good news is that the House has approved an energy appropriations bill with no increase in the nuclear loan program. But there remains a chance that one or more Senators could try to slip that money in. And besides, it's time to end the program entirely. When Congress is talking about taking a budget axe to necessary programs like Medicare and Social Security, there is no excuse to be spending money on dirty, dangerous and obsolete nuclear power.

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