The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

Berlin is considering developing its own atomic weapons to bolster Europe’s nuclear umbrella and the US’s own stockpile in the region, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Speaking before the German parliament Thursday,

Trump said that if Iran does not make a deal regarding its nuclear program, "we'll find out” whether Iran’s supreme leader was correct to predict that a U.S. attack on the country would spark a regional war.

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

A new Dept. of Energy funding bill redirects billions of $ to the Office of Nuclear Energy. It comes alongside announcements of an effort to establish Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses.

Going further, the French could deploy fighter jets from the nuclear-capable part of the fleet to Germany or other European countries, as they did—unarmed—in Sweden and Poland last year. The most far-reaching option, mimicking the existing NATO scheme, would be to pre-position air-launched nuclear weapons in allied countries.

The Department of Energy will announce an initiative to build out the nation's nuclear fuel supply chain as interest in the emissions-free power source grows.

The United States runs the largest nuclear power fleet on the planet, but even basic questions about how many plants are actually operating can produce different answers. Some counts focus on plant sites,

NuScale Power's goal is to be a manufacturer, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

New Start treaty, which expires this week, capped the number of missiles and warheads in US and Russian arsenals