Decrees of decrees aim to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants

The Trump administration is considering several decrees to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants to help respond to the increase in electricity demand, according to the projects examined by the New York Times.

The order project claims that the United States has lagged behind in China in the widening of nuclear energy and calls for a “wholesale revision” of federal security regulations to facilitate the construction of new factories. They envisage that the Ministry of Defense occupies a leading role in ordering reactors and installing them on the military bases.

They would also set a goal of quadruple the size of the country’s nuclear power plant fleet, nearly 100 gigawatts of electrical capacity today at 400 gigawatts by 2050. A gigawatt is sufficient to supply nearly a million houses.

“Like the American development of new conceptions of nuclear reactors has decreased, 87% of nuclear reactors installed in the world since 2017 are based on Russian and Chinese conceptions”, reads a order project, entitled “Ushering in a nuclear Renaissance”.

“These trends cannot continue,” said order. “Rapid and decisive action is necessary to revive the American nuclear rebirth.”

The four project orders are marked “pre-decision” and “deliberative”. They are among several potential decrees on nuclear energy that has circulated, but it is not clear which, if necessary, could be issued, according to a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke under the cover of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly.