Michael Kratsios: “Prior to President Trump's policies, we weren't testing new…”

“Americans looked forward to a future of nuclear trains, planes and flying automobiles. As you know, that momentum unfortunately did not last. Prior to President Trump's policies, we weren't testing new reactors. We were shutting perfectly good ones down. We were totally dependent on other countries for our fuel. The average NRC review took time for licensing new reactors took more than 20,000 hours.” (03:27–03:31)

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