Trump Responds To Concerns That Speeding Up Nuclear Approvals Comes At Expense To Safety

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump responded to concerns about safety stemming from new Executive Orders deregulating nuclear development.

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00:00safe and clean. Let's keep it on this for a little while. Let's keep it on the nuclear

00:06end. And if you want to ask something else, which you might, we'll do that.

00:10On nuclear, Mr. President, what do you say to folks who are concerned that speeding up

00:14licensing or even doing fuel processing raises safety and deliberation?

00:19Yeah, we're going to get it very fast and we're going to get it very safe. And we're

00:22going to get the people in and out. And they're going to do plants. In many cases, they'll

00:27do three or four smaller ones and put them together. That's what France has done. France

00:31has done a good job of this for years. And they, as I understand it, they had basically

00:36one plan. And if they needed more, they'd do three or four or five of them. I don't know

00:41we have to go that far, but there's something about building one big one. But we'll build

00:46the big ones too. We're going to have, I think we'll be, I would say we'll be second to none

00:51because we're starting very strong. But we, it's time, it's time for nuclear and we're

00:57going to do it very big. Yeah, please.

00:59Mr. President, what about the European?

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