Fact orig-019
On the day of the May 23, 2025 nuclear executive orders, Taylor published a long essay welcoming them. It argues that US policy should shift from a non-proliferation focus to 'dominance', that DOE should act as a reactor testbed rather than a second regulator, and that regulation should follow industry rather than precede it; it approvingly summarizes provisions such as abandoning the linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation model and bypassing the NRC for DOE pilot reactors. This establishes the company's public policy position; critics' views of those same orders are covered in government.json and safety.json. Its summary of the orders includes three terms not found in the signed texts: nine military bases (EO 14299 orders one Army reactor at a domestic base), DOE decisions within a one-year timeframe (EO 14301 speaks of operation within 2 years), and fuel approvals under six months (no such term). They may come from same-day White House fact sheets, which we could not read.
- Roadmap to the American Nuclear Golden Age (Valar Atomics, 2025-05-23) primary company “regulation follows industry, and not the other way around”
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