DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

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By Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublicaMar 28, 2026, 9:00 am123 ptsTrending
Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the U.S. government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in 1951 and continues to test cutting-edge technology. On the…

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