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They're taking a wrecking ball to the system of nuclear safety and security regulation oversight that has kept the U.S. from having another Three Mile Island accident. I am absolutely worried about the safety of these reactors.
This deeply troubling development confirms my worst fears about the dire state of nuclear power safety and security oversight under the Trump administration. The Energy Department has not only taken a sledgehammer to the basic principles that underlie effective nuclear regulation, but it has also done so in the shadows.
They're allowing companies to write their own ticket as far as security goes, and I'm especially concerned because several of the new reactor designs use higher levels of enriched uranium in their cores, which could make them targets of theft.