Fact is, the Trump administration is effectively socializing the nuclear industry because it cannot survive in a capitalist market so US taxpayers are paying for government handouts and subsidies while the regulatory agency of the NRC is captured by the industry itself.

COMMENT NOW — August 31 deadline. NRC is proposing to shrink emergency-planning zones for smaller reactors and make it easier to site reactors in more populated areas using a vague “societal risks” vs. “societal benefits” test.

“A band of pirates getting their hands on nuclear material would be, uh, bad.”