Energy Campaign

Nuclear

There is a long tradition of providing massive subsidies for nuclear power in the U.S. Between 1948 and 1998, more than $66 billion was spent on nuclear energy research and subsidies.¹

Unable to produce nuclear power at a profit by themselves, plant operators have resorted to intensively lobbying members of Congress to preserve unjustified subsidies for the normal costs of doing business. Private investors stay away from nuclear power because production of nuclear-fired electricity costs at least four times as much as other conventional energy sources. Where private investors recognize a bad deal, the federal government continues to recklessly spend taxpayer dollars.

Energy Bill Resources:

• April 20, 2005 -- TCS Letter to the House: Support the Udall Amendment to Strike Subsidies to the Uranium Industry
  
  
• April 10, 2005 -- TCS analysis of Nuke Power Giveaways in Senate Energy Bill
  

Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative Resources:

• July 8, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the Hill: "Keep Fiscally Wasteful Projects Out of FY04 Energy and Water Development Appropriations"
  
  
• June 10, 2003 -- TCS analysis of Nuke Power Giveaways in Senate Energy Bill
  
  
• May 29 , 2003 -- Energy Policy Act of 2003
  
  
• May 29, 2003 -- A Total Rip-off: Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative
  
  
• April 10, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the House: "RE: OPPOSE the Energy Policy Act of 2003; SUPPORT Kind Amendment on Oil and Gas Provisions; SUPPORT Udall Amendment on Uranium Mining"
  
  
• April 10, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the House: "RE: Oppose the Energy Policy Act of 2003, H.R. 6"
  
  
• March 18, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the Hill: "RE: Oppose the Energy Policy Act of 2003"

Resources:

• August 7, 2003 -- TCS Analysis: How PAC Contributions Fuel Key Nuclear Legislation
  
  
• July 15, 2003 -- House Approves Billion Dollar Increase Over Bush Energy, Water Budget
  
  
• June 10, 2003 -- Senate Votes to Increase Corporate Welfare for the Nuclear Industry
  
  
• June 5, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the Hill: Support the Wyden-Sununu-Bingaman-Ensign Amendment to Strike the Boondoggle Loan Guarantees for Nuclear Industry
  
  
• April 11, 2003 -- Wastebasket Vol. VIII No. 15: Christmas in April for the Energy Industry
  
  
• April 10, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the House: "RE: OPPOSE the Energy Policy Act of 2003; SUPPORT Kind Amendment on Oil and Gas Provisions; SUPPORT Udall Amendment on Uranium Mining"
  
  
• April 10, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the House: RE: Oppose the Energy Policy Act of 2003, H.R. 6
  
  
• April 9 , 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the Hill: "Re: Oppose Nuclear Title in Energy Bill"
  
  
• March 18, 2003 -- TCS Action Letter to the Hill: RE: Oppose the Energy Policy Act of 2003
  
  
• April 12, 2002 -- Wastebasket Vol. VII No. 15: Choice Cuts for the Budget
  
  
• January 31, 2002 -- Energy Polluters Poised to Reap $62 Billion in Taxpayer Handouts: Already Out-of-Control Government Giveaways to Oil, Coal and Nuclear Power Could Double, Groups Say
  
  
• November 26, 2001 -- Wastebasket Vol. VI No. 41: Nuclear Power Play
  
  
• July 31, 2001 -- Billions for Big Business in House Energy Plan
  
  
• July 27, 2001 -- Price-Anderson Act Fact Sheet: Special Subsidies and Protections for the Nuclear Industry
  
  
• June 27, 2001 -- Statement by Autumn Hanna, Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense on the Bush Administration’s Energy Proposals
  
  
• May 24, 2001 -- Statement by Jill Lancelot on Subsidies For Nuclear Power in Current Energy Proposals