The House and Senate Energy Appropriations Committees are beginning to work on the FY 2012 federal budget. And that means they are beginning to decide the fate of the loan guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction. We are expecting the first vote in the House Appropriations…

We are hearing that Senate-House appropriators are near agreement on a loan guarantee package that looks like this: $25 billion for nukes $10 billion for renewables $10 billion for coal to liquids $2 billion for uranium enrichment $2…