Nuclear Notes

摘要

The bad news came down to USEC Inc. in late July, when the Department of Energy informed the company that it was denying its application for a $2-billion loan guarantee for the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP), under construction near Piketon, Ohio. Instead, the DOE said that it would provide USEC with $45 million over 18 months for further research on the plant and for expanded cleanup at the shutdown Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, also located at the Piketon site.rnThe loan guarantee denial was not expected, in large part because Barack Obama had supported the facility during his presidential campaign in 2008. He had said in a letter to Ohio Gov.