The agreement is neither bi-partisan nor contains anything guaranteeing a massive expansion. The article says that if private companies wants to build nuclear reactors they will be able to lend money from the state and also be shielded from (some or all) of the risk. So when the projected cost of the reactors double then triple and the whole project gets delayed a decade or more you can guess who will foot the bill. Sucks to be paying tax.
Fortunately, private investors aren't that interested. They don't want to waste one billion of their money even if the taxpayers waste nine billion of theirs.
The agreement is neither bi-partisan nor contains anything guaranteeing a massive expansion. The article says that if private companies wants to build nuclear reactors they will be able to lend money from the state and also be shielded from (some or all) of the risk. So when the projected cost of the reactors double then triple and the whole project gets delayed a decade or more you can guess who will foot the bill. Sucks to be paying tax.
Fortunately, private investors aren't that interested. They don't want to waste one billion of their money even if the taxpayers waste nine billion of theirs.