By : Hayley Peterson
Examiner Staff
A proposed nuclear reactor in Maryland that is close to winning a billion-dollar federal loan guarantee would produce twice the energy of the state’s two existing reactors combined.
But the project at Calvert Cliffs faces many hurdles.
Nuclear energy opponents are challenging the reactor’s licensing qualifications with charges that the amount of foreign ownership violates the Atomic Energy Act — which bars nuclear projects with "foreign ownership, (…)