The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by NPR.The sweeping changes were made to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. They occurred over the fall and winter at the Department of Energy, which is currently overseeing …

Nuclear safety rules quietly rewritten to favor AI

The US Department of Energy (DoE) program that would see three new experimental commercial nuclear reactors launched by July 4 is the driver behind the secret rewriting of nuclear safety and security standards, says a report released Wednesday by NPR. It said, “sweeping changes [which have not been made public] were made to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs” known as small modular reactors (SMRs). The report a…

NPR ~ DOE Secretly Changed Nuclear Safety Rules

Trump administration secretly made sweeping changes to nuclear safety rules : National Public Radio The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained and reported exclusively by NPR reporter Geoff…

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules - TPR: The Public's Radio

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust. The post The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.