On behalf of the Trump administration, I am here to celebrate how far we've come in the past 12 months and to share a vision of where we are headed next. With last year's executive orders, President Trump made the most transformational decision for civil nuclear power since President Eisenhower announced Atoms for Peace in 1953. That heralded the first heyday of American nuclear energy. Within two decades, the country had 30 nuclear power plants in operation, 55 under construction, and more than 80 in planning or under order. (02:49–02:57)
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Asserts that Trump's decision on civil nuclear power is the most transformational since Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace.
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