The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

The Trump administration is making moves to loosen the environmental rules for nuclear energy. Earlier this month, the Energy Department published an exclusion to environmental reviews for the ...

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise ...

It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is ...

President Donald Trump has appointed Ho Nieh as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s new chair, the latest sign of the White House’s efforts to shape the agency’s leadership in pursuit of the ...