DOE rewrites nuclear safety rules under Trump White House, NPR reports

DOE rewrites nuclear safety rules under Trump White House, NPR reports

The Department of Energy (DOE) has overhauled and hollowed out much of its nuclear safety regulations, according to a recent National Public Radio report.  According to the Jan. 28 NPR article, over the course of fall and winter, DOE has slashed hundreds of pages of requirements for security at the reactors, loosened protections for groundwater and the environment and raised the amount of radiation a worker can be exposed to prior to an official…