First published on the Steem blockchain by @remlaps on May 26, 2025. View the original post.
Introduction
Back in September, I posted the article, AI-driven nuclear renaissance? Microsoft makes a deal to reopen Three Mile Island. At the time, Microsoft and Constellation Energy had announced that the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant would be reopening as the Crane Clean Energy Center, and Microsoft would be purchasing 100% of their energy.
This week, we had new evidence - in the form of four Executive Orders - that America is on the edge of a nuclear renaissance. Here are the orders:
- Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base
- Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy
- Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security
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As I've mentioned before, this topic is particularly interesting to me because my (late) father in law was one of the TMI responders from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the 1979 accident. Coincidentally, I recently happened to notice that he even makes a brief appearance in the current Netflix documentary on the subject. He's the guy in the hardhat.
Before he passed away, we had many dinner table conversations about the accident and about the relative safety of nuclear energy.
So, let's look and see what the Whitehouse said on the topic last week.
