President Donald Trump’s May executive orders seeking to “reinvigorate” the nation’s nuclear energy industry will boost the bipartisan push begun with 2024’s adoption of the ADVANCE Act, but more regulatory clear-cutting and investment is needed to sustain that momentum, reactor developers and operators say.
If not, they told a House panel, the United States could be eclipsed by competitors—most notably, China—in commercializing emerging technologies, such as small modular nuclear reactors, to power the artificial intelligence poised to dramatically restructure commerce, industry, and national security.
AI is “redefining how knowledge will be created in the future, similar to how the Industrial Revolution utilized machines to turn raw materials into goods more efficiently,” Electric Power Research Institute Executive Director Dr. Jeremy Renshaw said during a June 12 hearing before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s Energy Subcommittee....
