For the first time in its history, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a construction permit for a private advanced nuclear reactor.

Good news! Incredible, private and advanced!

"For the first time in its roughly 52-year history, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a construction permit for an advanced nuclear reactor design, despite Democrats’ best efforts to kill similar reactors. ...

The approval, granted this month to TerraPower’s Natrium advanced reactor project in Kemmerer, Wyo., marks a historic milestone and significant triumph over the long-standing bureaucratic and political hurdles that stifled innovation and deployment of advanced nuclear technologies in the U.S. The NRC completed the safety review in just under 18 months, ahead of schedule and 11 percent under budget — accomplishments that would have been previously unthinkable for the agency’s infamously awful bureaucracy. ..."

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