by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing on Townhall.com
President Trump is reviving U.S. nuclear energy development. At the recent AI-energy summit in Pittsburgh, President Trump announced that Westinghouse would build 10 new reactors across the country. But not if anti-nuclear activists can help it.
Take Edwin Lyman, for example, a career anti-nuclear activist and longtime Director of Nuclear Safety at the far-left Union of Concerned Scientists. Lyman has spent decades opposing nuclear development from within every government-adjacent perch available.
It was therefore not unexpected that a Trump directive to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve reactors tested by the Departments of Energy and Defense would prompt Lyman to declare his “worst fears are being realized.”
And what are those fears, exactly? That the NRC might stop functioning as an institutional blockade for every new nuclear project in America and start doing its actual job.
