A one-sentence provision buried in the Senate’s recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees.

Australian professor lists the solutions he believes will emerge in reaction to climate change.

A lab at MIT is vigorously researching and promoting a new nuclear technology called pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR). They believe that this technology presents a solution to climate change and fossil fuel depletion, although environmentalists are concerned that PBMRs are too experimental and could pose a safety risk.