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Chris Bing 5d ago

To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Nuclear #Energy #DOGE #Technology #Tech #Safety #Trump #AI

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator

In its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry. “The safety culture is under threat,” a former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️5d ago

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh... right... 😱

@ZhiZhu @ProPublica with the speed that theyre fucking everything up i dont think we have time to build a nuclear power plant before 1) the collapse of the trump admin or 2) the collapse of technological civilization

Fritz Adalis 5d ago

@ASprinkleofSage @ZhiZhu @ProPublica
There are plenty of existing nuclear power plants that are highly regulated. I can see two out my window right now...

PeachMcD 5d ago

@FritzAdalis @ASprinkleofSage @ZhiZhu @ProPublica

😖😬

@FritzAdalis @ZhiZhu @ProPublica i was gonna say how does deregulating those produce any more power, but its not about that, is it...

Fritz Adalis 5d ago

@ASprinkleofSage @ZhiZhu @ProPublica
Events like https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2026/20260319en.html#en58193 will become commonplace, with no reporting.

@ProPublica Breed fast and break things!

Frank Frank 5d ago

"Nuke-Power, so ezy peazy." Not complicated at all.

@ProPublica They trying to replicate the fall of the USSR, just capitalist?

Paul Barnfather 5d ago

Who looks at the aftermath of Chernobyl and thinks: yeah, we need more of that around here! 😳

Samantha 5d ago

@ProPublica This is bad. Thankfully we still have INPO.

@ProPublica
What could go wrong?
Revised Headline: MAGA slashes protections, world placed in grave danger.

Nu Modular 5d ago

@ProPublica Worse: there aren't enough people in the US to recognize these sleight-of-hand tactics, in driving up LNG/fracking prices, so there's more profit for the abusive top 1% that directly contributed to the current administrations campaign(s).

It takes a much deeper knowledge of these predatory tactics, in order to trigger impassioned uprising that's usually the main source for deeply rooted change. Systematically depleting educational systems of scalable problem solving skills, while increasing artificial ultra-processed foods in further diluting mind/body symmetry, makes for a very steep fall-of-Rome.

If you have kids/grandkids; seriously consider #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries.

@ProPublica They are reviving the old AEC (Atomic Energy Commission). They were too pro-nuke, so the NRC was created with the DOE eventually taking up the pro-nuke side (forget what the original pro-nuke agency was called).

Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder 4d ago

Lovely. /s

Pete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️4d ago

@ProPublica
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Dorothea Salo (@[email protected])

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