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In the United States, President Barack Obama has reversed long-standing Democratic Party policy by approving substantial new loa
In the United States, President Barack Obama has reversed long-standing Democratic Party policy by approving substantial new loa
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2011-02-03
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In the United States, President Barack Obama has reversed long-standing Democratic Party policy by approving substantial new loans for the construction of nuclear energy plants in the US.
He has followed up on his support for "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" in his State of the Union address in January, by proposing to triple public financing for nuclear power.
The US Department of Energy recently proposed $US36 billion in new federal loan guarantees on top of $US18.5 billion already budgeted—for a total of $US54.5 billion—which is expected to fund six or seven new power plants. The first of the new generation power stations is being built in the state of Georgia, backed by federal loans of $US8 billion.
This reversed the position Barack Obama held during the presidential election campaign, when he opposed a plan by his Republican opponent, John McCain, to build 45 nuclear power plants by 2030. Obama, at the time, gave the excuse that nuclear power stations should not be built until the nuclear waste disposal problem was solved.
In Britain, the Labour Government of Gordon Brown faces the problem of having to replace ageing power stations from 2015, after having sold off its controlling stake in the British Energy Group to the French company, EDF. Mr. Brown has promised to fast-track the construction of 10 nuclear power stations in Britain, using the Infrastructure Planning Commission to cut through red tape and environmental approval processes which would normally delay new projects for years.
The commission promises to get projects through to a decision in about a year.
The British Government specifically says that it intends to use nuclear energy because it has almost zero CO
2
emissions, and will enable Britain to cut CO
2
emissions, as required by the European Union’s mandatory CO
2
reduction targets.
EDF, Europe’s largest electric power generator, has extensive experience in nuclear power generation, as most of France’s energy comes from nuclear power.
In a statement in support of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point on England’s west Somerset coast, EDF stated, "The Government’s draft Nuclear National Policy Statement (NPS) emphasises the need for the UK to take account of the ability to develop new nuclear power stations significantly earlier than 2025 so to displace CO
2
, and achieve the Government’s objective of achieving an electricity supply that is almost entirely ’decarbonised’ by 2050."
It added, "Unless action is taken now to invest in new nuclear power stations, carbon emissions from electricity generation are likely to rise and energy security will be at increasing risk. It is on this fundamental basis that EDF Energy believes there is a pressing need for new nuclear development. The proposed nuclear power development at Hinkley Point C will provide more than 6 percent of the UK’s electricity requirements. This will represent a significant contribution to the Government’s energy policy aims in its own right."
Nuclear power has been refined over the past 50 years, to the point where it is the cleanest source of available energy, even taking into account the problems of nuclear waste disposal and plant decommissioning. The fact that the left-wing governments of Britain and the United States have embarked on a massive expansion of nuclear power generation shows that they regard these problems as manageable.
From News Weekly, March 6, 2010
The British government intends to use nuclear energy because______.
选项
A、the Labour Government faces a series of big problems
B、the government has sold off its controlling stake to EDF
C、the government promised to fast-track the construction
D、nuclear energy is the cleanest source of available energy
答案
D
解析
本题为细节题。根据题目关键词在第七段找到相关信息“The British Government specifically says that it intends to use nuclear energy because it has almost zero CO
2
emissions”,因此选D。
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