Notes and Sources

20.  For the complete text of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, see web site http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/ getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&docid=f: publ058.109.pdf. 

21.  See AEO2008 for more detailed discussion of the program and the FY 2008 Appropriations Act. 

22.  At the same time, DOE also issued a solicitation for the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Because NEMS does not contain a direct representation of the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle, that solicitation is not considered in this analysis. 

23.  U.S. Department of Energy, “DOE Announces Solicitation for $30.5 Billion in Loan Guarantees” (Washington, DC, June 30, 2008), web site www.lgprogram. energy.gov/press/063008.pdf. 

24.  U.S. Department of Energy, “DOE Announces Solicitation for $8.0 Billion in Loan Guarantees” (Washington, DC, September 22, 2008), web site www. lgprogram.energy.gov/press/092208.pdf. 

25.  A detailed discussion of the rationale for this assumption can be found in AEO2008. In brief, in 2007, DOE released technology-specific information about the requested guarantees from the 2006 solicitation. Included in that information were the requested dollar amounts of the guarantees, by technology. It was assumed, basically, that the dollar amounts of the approved guarantees would be proportional to the requested dollar amounts. 

26.  U.S. Department of Energy, “DOE Announces Loan Guarantee Applications for Nuclear Power Plant Construction” (Washington, DC, October 2, 2008), web site www.lgprogram.energy.gov/press/100208.pdf.