{"id":269021,"date":"2010-02-02T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21352"},"modified":"2010-02-02T18:40:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:40:23","slug":"u-s-budget-gives-nuclear-power-a-yea-and-big-oil-a-nay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269021","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Budget Gives Nuclear Power A Yea And Big Oil A Nay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Susquehanna_steam_electric_station-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Susquehanna_steam_electric_station\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21389\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" \/>By Phil McKenna for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18464-us-budget-gives-nuclear-power-a-yea-and-big-oil-a-nay.html\">New Scientist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nuclear power got a boost and big oil took a hit yesterday when US President Barack Obama submitted his 2011 federal budget proposal to Congress. The budget calls for an immediate $36 billion increase in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants and eliminates $36.5 billion in subsidies to oil and natural gas companies over a 10-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Federal loan guarantees could be a huge boost to the US nuclear power industry, which hasn&#8217;t had an order for a new plant since the 1970s. The guarantees allow power companies to get lower interest rates when they secure project financing.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Energy already has authority to grant $18.5 billion in loan guarantees, enough for two to four nuclear plants. If approved by Congress, the additional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Phil McKenna for New Scientist: Nuclear power got a boost and big oil took a hit yesterday when US President Barack Obama submitted his 2011 federal budget proposal to Congress. The budget calls for an immediate $36 billion increase in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants and eliminates $36.5 billion in subsidies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}