Obama Gives $8B in Loan Guarantees to Jump-Start Nuclear Power

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By Andrew Moseman
Feb 17, 2010 11:52 PMNov 20, 2019 1:37 AM
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Are these the first steps to a nuclear renaissance? Yesterday the White House said it would give more than $8 billion in loan guarantees to make sure that construction of two new nuclear power plants gets under way in Georgia. If these plants go ahead, they would be the first new nuclear plants built in the country in more than three decades.

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