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Nuclear Energy Policy

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By Mark Holt (au)
Year: 2009
Pages: 28
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1437928277

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Nuclear energy issues facing Congress include federal incentives for new commercial reactors, radioactive waste management policy, R&D priorities, power plant safety and regulation, nuclear weapons proliferation, and security against terrorist attacks. Significant incentives for new commercial reactors were included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, including production tax credits, loan guarantees, insurance against regulatory delays, and extension of the Price-Anderson Act nuclear liability system. Together with higher fossil fuel prices and the possibility of greenhouse gas controls, the federal incentives for nuclear power have helped spur renewed interest by utilities and other potential reactor developers. Contents of this report: (I) Most Recent Developments; (II) Nuclear Power Status and Outlook: Possible New Reactors; Federal Support; Nuclear Production Tax Credit; Standby Support; Loan Guarantees; Global Climate Change; (III) Nuclear Power R&D; (IV) Nuclear Power Plant Safety and Regulation: Safety; Domestic Reactor Safety; Reactor Safety in the Former Soviet Bloc; Licensing and Regulation; Reactor Security; Decommissioning; Nuclear Accident Liability; (V) Nuclear Waste Management; (VI) Nuclear Weapons Proliferation; (VII) Federal Funding for Nuclear Energy Programs; (VIII) Legislation in the 111th Congress. Tables.

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