Kevin O'Leary

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Short Wave · Are Trump and AI driving a nuclear power boom? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

In The Simpsons? matched

These reactors had to go through engineering and safety reviews. matched

And that's where this Department of Energy program I spoke about comes in. matched

You see, since the 70s, nuclear reactors have been overseen by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. matched

They're kind of the matched

ultimate safety bureaucrats. matched

And they've had this really, really good track record with one little blip, Three Mile Island. matched

Other than that, things have been great, right? matched

We haven't had a lot of accidents. matched

We haven't had a lot of incidents that kept the industry relatively safe. matched

But everything's been very, very slow. matched

So this new pilot program was set up in part to bypass the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. matched

It turns out the Department of Energy is allowed to matched

regulate certain kinds of experimental reactors. matched

So first of all, they kind of got around the NRC that way. matched

But that's not all the Energy Department did. matched

In January, myself and Shortwave's very own Aru Nair reported that they actually rewrote their own internal rules for nuclear safety and security to help speed along the approval of these reactors. matched

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So I've actually pulled up my story here and I'll just give you a few examples. matched

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