{"id":28432,"date":"2025-05-23T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28432"},"modified":"2025-05-23T20:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:27:49","slug":"trump-orders-faster-build-out-of-nuclear-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28432","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation\u2019s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors.<\/p>\n

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President Trump signed four executive orders on Friday aimed at accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States, including a new generation of small, advanced reactors that offer the promise of faster deployment but have yet to be proven.<\/p>\n

One order directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the nation\u2019s independent safety regulator, to streamline its rules and to take no more than 18 months to approve applications for new reactors.<\/p>\n

Another order directs the Energy and Defense departments to explore siting reactors on federal lands and military bases, possibly alongside new data centers. That could allow the departments to bypass the N.R.C. and develop their own, faster processes for approving reactors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a huge day for the nuclear industry,\u201d said Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, as he stood behind Mr. Trump at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. \u201cMark this day on your calendar. This is going to turn the clock back on over 50 years of overregulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In one of his first acts in office, Mr. Trump declared a \u201cnational energy emergency,\u201d<\/a> saying the country did not have enough electricity to meet its growing needs, particularly for data centers that run artificial intelligence. While most of Mr. Trump\u2019s actions have focused on boosting coal, oil and natural gas, administration officials have supported nuclear power, too.<\/p>\n

Nuclear power enjoys bipartisan backing in Congress<\/a>. While some Democrats remain opposed because of concerns about safety and disposal of nuclear waste, an increasing number have embraced the technology because it doesn\u2019t produce planet-warming emissions. Republicans support it because it can run at all hours, unlike wind and solar power.<\/p>\n

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Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation\u2019s nuclear safety regulator to speed up approvals for new reactors.President Trump signed four executive orders on Friday aimed at accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States, including a new generation of small, advanced reactors that offer the promise of faster deployment but have yet to be proven.One order directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the nation\u2019s independent safety regulator, to streamline its rules and to take no more than 18 months to approve applications for new reactors.Another order directs the Energy and Defense departments to explore siting reactors on federal lands and military bases, possibly alongside new data centers. That could allow the departments to bypass the N.R.C. and develop their own, faster processes for approving reactors.\u201cThis is a huge day for the nuclear industry,\u201d said Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, as he stood behind Mr. Trump at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. \u201cMark this day on your calendar. This is going to turn the clock back on over 50 years of overregulation.\u201dIn one of his first acts in office, Mr. Trump declared a \u201cnational energy emergency,\u201d saying the country did not have enough electricity to meet its growing needs, particularly for data centers that run artificial intelligence. While most of Mr. Trump\u2019s actions have focused on boosting coal, oil and natural gas, administration officials have supported nuclear power, too.Nuclear power enjoys bipartisan backing in Congress. While some Democrats remain opposed because of concerns about safety and disposal of nuclear waste, an increasing number have embraced the technology because it doesn\u2019t produce planet-warming emissions. Republicans support it because it can run at all hours, unlike wind and solar power.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28434,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28435,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions\/28435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}