Trump’s $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills (Rolling Stone)

“The Trump administration released three executive orders on nuclear energy on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend — a time often used to dump bad news. And these orders were as disastrous as they come.

With these orders, President Donald Trump has embraced a dangerous strategy to promote the most expensive power there is: nuclear. His plan for new nuclear plants would require hundreds if not thousands of reactors, cost the nation over $4 trillion, and raise electricity bills substantially.

Worse, he is weakening design and safety oversight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And he’s doing so just as the NRC is starting to get flooded with new experimental — and highly risky — applications for previously untested small modular reactor (SMR) designs that appear to cut costs by skimping on safety.”

Read the full article by Joseph Romm in Rolling Stone by clicking here.