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9. Don't worry! There's a New generation of nuclear reactors coming. They're Small! They're Modular! (Okay, Worry.)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:13 PM

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From 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 NPR.

The sweeping changes were made to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5677187/nuclear-safety-rules-rewritten-trump

The DOE is boosting the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) that will allow most of the reactor construction to be done in a manufacturing plant, then shipped to an operating site. This will drastically lower overall cost. A small reactor could power a single facility like a data center. Many more reactors means many more potential points of failure, and the potential is raised if safety rules are relaxed.

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