The White House executive orders direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to license new reactor designs quickly and gives the departments of Energy and

US President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders titled Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base, Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy and Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with the goal of "re-establishing the United States as the global leader in nuclear energy".

Some of the policies enacted under the Trump administration will have lasting impacts on the environment far after the current president leaves office, experts say.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, alongside his wife, Melania, on Monday signed the Take It Down Act, a measure the first lady helped usher through Congress to set stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery online, or “revenge porn.”

"We're signing tremendous executive orders today that really ... of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. "President Trump is taking truly historic action to usher in the American nuclear renaissance ...