US energy spending bill will kill funding for GNEP

[bananas]

GNEP is a scam.
Yucca is a money pit.

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US energy spending bill will kill funding for GNEP

Washington (Platts)--18Jun2008

A US House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee unanimously
approved a Department of Energy funding bill Tuesday that would fully fund a
nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, while eliminating funding
for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, the international spent fuel
reprocessing program.

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Visclosky's panel made no provision for the GNEP, which the chairman
called "counterproductive, poorly designed and poorly executed."

The bill did set aside an unrequested $500 million for Energy
Independence and Security Act programs including grants to help corn-based
biorefineries convert to cellulosic biorefineries, $295 million for energy
efficiency block grants, and "sufficient funding" to provide $1 billion in
direct loans for an EISA advanced vehicles incentive program.

The measure would also fully fund a weatherization assistance program for
low-income residents which is popular with both House and Senate Democrats,
but for which the Bush administration did not request any fiscal 2009 funding.
It would receive $250 million. The bill would also provide $4.86 billion for
DOE science and research efforts, $140 million more than the president
requested and $844 billion more than was provided for the current fiscal year.

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