The Trump Administration Exempts New Nuclear Reactors From Environmental Review

The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

New Trump Nuclear Reactor Policy: “Trust Us”

The Trump Administration is quietly dismantling safeguards for nuclear power and seeking to limit transparency and public input.  Trump’s Department of Energy wants us to blindly trust them to protect the public. But blind trust in federal agencies is in scarce supply these days.  Trying to sneak through regulatory changes may speed things up in the short run but is likely to cause delays later and  magnify distrust of the industry. The Administ…

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules.

Removing the standard means that new reactors could be constructed with less concrete shielding, and workers could work longer shifts, potentially receiving higher doses of radiation January 28, 2026, NPR 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 NP…