It would allow foreign corporations to own and operate nuclear reactors in the United States, which would mean that U.S. taxpayers would be subsidizing foreign corporations while exercising limited controls over their operations. It would also create an Office of Spent Nuclear Fuel Research to promote dangerous and discredited technologies such as the reprocessing of radioactive waste. This bill does nothing to solve the nuclear waste problem but instead introduces a host of new environmental and safety problems. It merely serves as a smokescreen to mask the problems that would be exacerbated by the increased reliance on nuclear power that this bill promotes. By propping up a dangerous and failed technology, the legislation ignores proven alternatives such as wind, solar and energy conservation.
Nuclear reactors are neither clean nor safe.
The promotion of nuclear power as environmentally friendly is at best deceptive and constitutes the worst kind of corporate welfare. I strongly urge you to oppose this legislation and to speak out against it at every opportunity.