Mother Jones: In September 2007, the city of San Antonio and NRG Energy announced a partnership to build two new nuclear reactors–the first new nuclear project to be initiated in the United States in decades. The project represented, one of the partners promised, “a milestone for our long-term energy future.” The project, initially estimated to cost $5.8 billion, quickly became a leading candidate for a Department of Energy (DOE) program in which the government would guarantee loans to finance new …