World Nuclear Association Information Service, "US Senate passes energy bill", World Nuclear Association Weekly Digest, August 8, 2003

To expedite passage of the energy legislation, the US Senate abandoned the energy bill it had been debating and passed 84-14 their version of last year's energy bill (passed then 88-11) as the basis of the legislation. They agreed that it would be subject to additional provisions in the House-Senate conference which assembles a final version. While R&D, production and energy diversity provisions from the original Senate bill are likely to be added, the government loan guarantee provision for building six new reactors may not. Other incentives however are likely. NEI Nuclear Energy Overview 4/8/03, Nucleonics Week 7/8/03.