The Department of Government Efficiency staffer who led the implementation of President Trump’s nuclear safety oversight rollbacks last year was simultaneously serving on the board of a venture capital firm backed by nuclear industry investors. He is one of multiple DOGE agents with financial ties to nuclear firms that benefited from the rollbacks, drawn from a Silicon Valley investor network that has long pushed to weaken nuclear safety regulation.
Last May, Trump signed four executive orders aiming to unleash a “nuclear renaissance.” The orders set aggressive goals to quadruple the nation’s nuclear power and deploy experimental reactor designs by July 2026. The administration has since secretly rewritten safety rules, slashed environmental reviews, and plans to…
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