Tim Hwang is joined by FAI Senior Fellow and Nuclear Barbarians podcast host Emmet Penney to reflect on nuclear regulators’ new approach to licensing. We cover: how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission became more fixated on regulating nuclear projects than promoting them, what explains the current political momentum around nuclear energy, why a competent NRC is essential for overseeing such a powerful dual-use technology, and how to “make nuclear normal again.”

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Emmet’s recent article with The Free Press, “Will America Finally Let Itself Build Nuclear Plants?”:

https://www.thefp.com/p/will-america-finally-let-itself-build-nuclear-plants

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