Trump To Sign Energy Executive Orders To Unleash ‘Nuclear Renaissance’

President Donald Trump is expected to sign multiple executive orders on Friday designed to unleash a “nuclear renaissance” by clearing substantial regulatory hurdles that often hold back nuclear development.

The four executive orders allow for the expansion of nuclear power by empowering the Department of ⚡Energy (DOE) to lead nuclear research and development projects, instructing other federal agencies to promote nuclear ⚡Energy and related research or work as appropriate and overhauling the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a senior White House official told reporters Friday. Additionally, Trump will sign an executive order promoting “Gold Standard Science” intended to help the U.S. lead the world in research and science.

“Today, President Trump is taking historic action to ensure America’s ⚡Energy dominance and provide affordable, reliable, safe and secure ⚡Energy to the American people,” president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios told reporters Friday. “With these actions, President Trump is showing the world that America will build again, and that the American nuclear renaissance can begin.

“America’s great innovators and entrepreneurs have run into brick walls when it comes to nuclear technologies,” Kratsios continued. “From 1950 onward, America led the world in nuclear innovation, building more than 100 reactors over the next 30 years. However, in the last 30 years, we started and built only two. We decommissioned commercial reactors across the country, stepped back from research and development, and abandoned hopes of nuclear