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Trump Signs Executive Orders to Boost Nuclear Energy Even as Regulatory Body Remains Understaffed


President Trump signed executive orders to build nuclear reactors to meet the electricity needs of AI data centers and emerging industries.

The executive orders clear a path for construction on America’s federal lands, allow for design testing of nuclear reactors at United States Department of Energy labs and “remove regulatory barriers by requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue timely licensing decisions,” a press release from the White House said. It alters the availability of tax incentives for renewable energy plants, limiting them to projects that begin construction 60 days after enactment of the bill and are finished by 2028. She is the author of the short story collection The Smallest of Entryways, as well as the travel biography, Ernest’s Way: An International Journey Through Hemingway’s Life.

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