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This is going to be unpopular, because it's Trump doing it, but most of this is probably good. Nuclear power is incredibly safe. It's also really reliable, and it would be cheap but the dirty energy companies have made laws and regulations that make nuclear power so expensive it can't compete. We should be lessening regulations around nuclear power. It should be done thoughtfully, which I doubt this is, but it needs to be done.
For example, the linear no-threshold danger model for radiation exposure is at best wrong, and at worst actively harmful.
Nuclear power has been purposefully over-regulated to protect energy companies. If it were regulated at a reasonable amount it'd be far more cost-effective than other sources (besides maybe solar and wind). Companies producing and selling dirty energy would go bankrupt incredibly quickly, if they didn't invest in alternatives, if they're regulated to the same levels of safety. The energy market has been designed to favor them over nuclear.
Like many things Trump does, there is a nugget of good smothered with a terribly corrupt and incompetent execution.