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"path": "/2026/04/02/doge-goes-nuclear-how-trump-invited-silicon-valley-into-americas-nuclear-power-regulator/",
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"adam blake",
"chris wright",
"david taggart",
"doge",
"donald trump",
"elon musk",
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"textContent": "This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the U.S. government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in 1951 and continues to test cutting-edge technology. […]",
"title": "DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator"
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