ISSUE UPDATE

December 4, 2007

As a follow-up to EESI's October 30 briefing, "Loan Guarantee Provisions in the 2007 Energy Bills: Does Nuclear
Power Pose Significant Taxpayer Risk and Liability?", we wanted to make you aware of the following news articles
and Op-Eds that discuss loan guarantees for the nuclear industry:

Don't saddle taxpayers with nuclear bailouts
Industry Could Get Guarantees under Sen. Domenici's Proposal
By Jon Block
November 30, 2007 (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_7598141   

Will Congress make taxpayers fund terror-target nuke reactors?
By Harvey Wasserman
November 29, 2007
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2007/1616  

Hooked on Subsidies
By Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren
November 26, 2007 (Forbes)
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8792  

Despite high energy prices, Democrats find energy legislation vexing
Nov 28, 2007 (McClatchy Newspapers - McClatchy-Tribune News Service)
http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/6/5/101543556.html

Industry Pushes Nuclear Loan Guarantees
November 28, 2007 (Associated Press)
http://www.fool.com/news/associated-press/2007/11/28/industry-pushes-nuclear-loan-guarantees.aspx

Jurassic Park: Marketplace dinosaur seeks more public financing
By Mark Haim
November 20, 2007
http://showmenews.com/2007/Nov/20071120Comm008.asp

Nuclear advocates try to clear obstacles
By Jim Snyder
November 08, 2007 (The Hill)
http://thehill.com/business--lobby/nuclear-advocates-try-to-clear-obstacles-2007-11-08.html

No government subsidies for new nuclear plants
By Bonnie Raitt and Harvey Wasserman
November 7, 2007 (Baltimore Sun)
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.nonukes07nov07,0,1391528.story

U.S. to guarantee loans for nuclear plants
By Alan Zibel
October 5, 2007 (Associated Press)
http://preview.contracostatimes.com/green/ci_7091695

Money Matters in Reactor Project Debate
By Dan Morse
September 5, 2007 (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090402002_pf.html

Glow Job
August 22, 2007 (Detroit: Metro Times)
http://www.metrotimes.com/%5Ceditorial%5Cstory.asp?id=11421

Domenici Receives Assurances from Nussle on Loan Guarantees
August 2, 2007
http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=235354&Month=8&Year=2007&Party=1

Energy Bill Aids the Expansion Plans of Atomic Power Plants
By Edmund L. Andrews and Matthew L. Wald
July 31, 2007 (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/washington/31nuclear.html

Whoops: an expensive, valuable history lesson
By John A. Baden, Ph.D. and Eric H. Espenhorst
April 12, 1995 (Seattle Times)
http://www.free-eco.org/articleDisplay.php?id=274

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