Rapidly deploying more nuclear power will require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to grow in size, not shrink, the Trump administration now says, even as outsiders worry the agency is on the chopping block.  

For months, many have feared that President Donald Trump’s executive order on restructuring the regulatory agency would result in sweeping staffing cuts, making it more difficult to deliver on the administration’s goals of quadrupling domestic nuclear capacity and building 10 large new reactors.