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Nuclear Power Primed for Comeback: Demand, Subsidies Spur U.S. Utilities

Date: October 8, 2007

Author: Steven Mufson

QUOTE: Many environmental groups, torn between concern about climate and long-standing antipathy toward nuclear power, are seizing on the cost issue. "We're not an anti-nuclear group," says Jeremy Symons, executive director of the global warming program at the National Wildlife Federation. "But it doesn't make sense for the government to be investing in nuclear when the money could be put into renewables and energy efficiency."

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Key People:

• James K. Asselstine
• Prof. Stephen W. Pacala
• President George W. Bush
• Prof. Robert H. Socolow
• Prof. David M. Crane Esq.
• Jeremy Symons

Key Organizations:

• Constellation Energy Group
• Duke Energy Corporation
• Earth Track
• Keystone Center
• National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
• NRG Energy
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Washington Post Newspaper

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Risk Taking

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Industry-Specific Issues
    • Energy/Natural Resources

• Science & Technology
  • Energy Sources/Policy
  • Environmental Science: General
    • Climate/Global Warming
    • Toxic/Hazardous Materials
  • Technological Risk/Innovation/Utilization

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

• Worldwide

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