Trump signs Executive Order that the white House will increase nuclear energy

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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed four executive commands in connection with nuclear energy that enable the reactor examination, enable the departments for energy and defense to build core reactors to the state, to revise the nuclear regulatory commission and to increase the mining of the United States from uranium in the USA, said a high -ranking official of the White House.

The President also signed a command for restoration, which the White House described as a “gold standard science”. The administration has shortened a billion in federal grants that finance scientific research and shortened personnel employment in several scientifically focused agencies.

“Today we hire enormous executive orders that really make us real power in this industry,” said Trump while signing an oval office.

The measures are taken as Trump's budget proposed to shorten more than 400 million US dollars from the Ministry of Energy Energy Office.

The Interior Minister Doug Burgum, who, together with the executives of the core energy company Trump in the Oval Office, was a signpost, complained about what he said that he invested “about regulation” and in the industry in the industry. He praised Trump for the commitment to “energy hominance”, from which he said they would allow the United States to “win the AI ​​arms with China”.

“What we do in connection with electricity in the next five years will determine the next 50,” he added.

A nuclear -related executive order accelerates reactor tests in the Department of Energy National Laboratories, accelerates applications and review processes and enables a pilot program for the construction in the next two years, the civil servant reporter said before signing the Oval Office. A second order aims to reduce the regulations for the department for energy and defense in order to build nuclear reactors on the state, which the official said that “safe and reliable nuclear energy would enable critical defense systems and AI calculating centers for the power and operation of critical defense systems”.

Defense Minister Pete Hegseth pointed out what he said was a national security requirement.

“By having small modular nuclear skills that are used quickly that we can use here and around the world at our bases, we create an environment in which the military can be reliable,” he said.

A spokesman for the White House Office for Science and Technology said that the new reactors were “small and advanced”.

Trump will also demand the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – the Federal Authority, which licensed nuclear reactors – to make decisions about nuclear reactor licenses to a third connection within 18 months.

A fourth order “focuses on the revival of the US nuclear industrial nose”, which will enable the United States to “start and enrich uranium with mining and to expand the domestic uranium conversion and enrichment capacities”.

However, the United States has been removed years from putting its enrichment functions into operation in full capacity. As CNN reported, the United States received most of its enriched uranium from Russia by 2023. A cross -party law that was adopted into Ukraine in Ukraine after the invasion of Russia, and scientists and companies run at home.

Trump wrote that the administration tries to “facilitate the use of new nuclear reactors technologies such as Generation III+ and IV reactors, modular reactors and microreactors, including the reduction in regulatory authorities and the cost entry barriers for admission”.

The executive regulations include removing or replacing members of the NRC Commission, said the official. But if the measures would lead to a reduction in the staff, the official said: “The reduction in staff was indefinite at this point, but the executive regulations require an essential reorganization of the organization.”

The text of the order, which is published later on Friday, which reformed the NRC, said that “the current structure and staff of the NRC are wrongly aligned with the guideline of the congress that the NRC is not excessively restricted” and proves it to advise you on advising the government's efficiency in order to advise you on request and adoption of innovative technology to promote.

“In conjunction with this reorganization, the NRC must carry out a reduction in force, although certain functions of size can increase in accordance with the guidelines in this order, including those who are devoted to the new reactor licensing,” it says in the order.

Doge was a synonym for comprehensive cuts in the federal government.

The arrangement for the reform of the NRC also said that the organization “could not licens new reactors, even if technological progress promises to make nuclear energy safer, cheaper, more adaptable and more extensive than ever”, and calls on to “adopt scientific radiation boundaries”.

“Instead of promoting the safe, abundant nuclear energy efficiently, the NRC has instead tried to isolate the Americans from the most distant risks without adequately observing the serious domestic and geopolitical costs of such a risk aversion,” says the order.

When asked about the timeline to get new reactors online, the official said that the administration would like to test and use nuclear reactors within the rest of the trump term.

Ella Nilsen from CNN contributed to this report.

This story has been updated with additional details.