The second Trump administration, building on momentum from the prior administration, launched an aggressive push to revitalize US nuclear power just over a year ago through a set of executive orders anchored by a sweeping regulatory overhaul and a goal of adding 300 gigawatts of capacity by 2050, for a total of 400 GW. The first of those milestones was largely symbolic, with more difficult and murky obstacles ahead: No firm commercial reactor orders have been placed in the US in over a year; the only major North American project under construction is in Canada, and key government financing tools remain contingent on utility commitments that have not materialized.