Until a week ago the Calvert Cliffs 1 and 2 reactors on the site, 55 miles from Washington, were set to get a sibling. Calvert Cliffs 3, a joint venture between Baltimore-based Constellation Energy and Electricite de France (EDF), the mammoth French utility, was to join the two venerable reactors.
But now there will be no Calvert Cliffs 3, according to one of its promoters, Constellation Energy.
The project has been canceled–strangled in its crib, if you like, by the White House Office of Management and Budget, which insisted on a sky-high fee in return for federal guarantees of the private commercial loans the utilities needed to finance unit 3.
By effective axing a new reactor, OMB was acting against the Department of Energy, Congress, and possibly the wishes of President Obama.
http://whchronicle.com/2010/10/omb-faulted-in-nuclear-abandonment/
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