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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

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    by mcdirt on Fri Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27:01 AM EST
    I'm curious about conservatives' position on federal subsidies for nuclear power plants? I hear a lot of criticism about subsidies for wind and solar, but virtually nothing about the same for nukes, including the loan guarantees announced recently by President Obama. Nor are the status quo subsidies and structural competitive advantages for coal ever criticized.

    Only clean energy subsidies seem to attract that sort of scrutiny from the Right. France's nuclear power is just the sort of massive government program that I'd expect would be assailed, rather than embraced, here. As Cato Institute fellows Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren put it recently: "How do France (and India, China and Russia) build cost-effective nuclear power plants? They don't. Governmental officials in those countries, not private investors, decide what is built. Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors."

    I'm not necessarily opposed to nuclear. But I do think the same tough scrutiny being applied to renewable energy options options should be applied to nuclear power proposals.

    Hugh

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