“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Sep 05, 2025
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On My Mind Today:
How pathetic is Trump, anyway? Does he really believe nuclear power is more “American”, therefor better than other cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable — not to mention much much safer — just because it is more to America’s “holier than thou” big-headed attitude toward the rest of the global population? Trump has no idea what “American” means nor what it stands for.
Also, so it seems, other fossil fuels that contribute to global warming and climate change along with a potential nuclear holocaust to go along with them, rather than working toward solely renewable sources of energy makes us more elite than other nations? What is “more American” than resourceful and intelligent use of our economy anyway? I would call the phrase “more American“ a psychologically sad “superiority complex” not even approaching reality in a world that must unite in order to save itself from extinction. Trump is definitely the wrong man for the job . . .
This mentally unstable diabolical man is an absurd representative of humanity’s standard idea of what humanity stands for — and yet many of us have bought into Trump’s own mentally substandard quality of life that we Americans once had and that still remains for us all — Trump’s America be damned — if we would just allow Gaia (Mother Nature) to do her job. and stop butting in with our halfcocked highfaluting’ human ideas of unnaturally improving what planet Earth has to offer. ~llaw
Trump supports nuclear power as it is ‘more American’ than wind, solar, US official says
By Reuters
September 5, 202510:33 AM PDTUpdated 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is more willing to support loan guarantees and tax breaks for nuclear power than for wind and solar because it is “more American” than those forms of energy, the director of the U.S. Energy Dominance Council said on Thursday.
Jarrod Agen said nuclear power is more likely to be made from U.S.-made parts than wind and solar farms, so the administration is more willing to give it financial aid from the U.S. Loan Programs Office and support tax incentives.
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“Nuclear is new in that we need to invest in it to get ahead – and it’s the long-term play that the president wants to put in place,” Agen told an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It hasn’t had the proper kind of investment. It hasn’t had the focus that some of the other intermittent (energy sources) have had.”
Companies at the forefront of building nuclear reactors are American companies, he added.
Agen said building out nuclear power is the third prong of the Trump administration’s approach to winning the artificial intelligence race against China after extending the lifespans of aging coal plants that are retiring and increasing the efficiency of the existing electric grid.
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has deployed a range of tactics to stop offshore wind expansion, which was a cornerstone of former President Joe Biden’s efforts to combat climate change but has struggled with soaring costs and supply chain snags.
Most notably, Trump’s Interior Department late last month issued a stop-work order on the Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island, which is 80% complete.
Agen dismissed criticism that revoking permits for nearly-completed renewable energy projects causes instability and uncertainty, saying the Trump administration is sending a signal that projects that will succeed will not be reliant on tax credits or subsidies.
“If you want to invest in a project that you can be financially viable in, and you’re not reliant on tax subsidies to do it, I think that’s the message that we’re trying to show and I think that we have seen success on the fossil fuels,” he said.
Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Valerie Volcovici; editing by Diane Craft and Lincoln Feast
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