Project Independence Plan for One Thousand Nuclear Plants Killed by Regulatory Commission

What was said

"1944, the vice president of the United States almost became a guy named Henry Wallace, who was an actual communist. The Nixon administration created something called Project Independence. And Project Independence was to build 1,000 new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000. How many nuclear power plants were built out of the 1,000? Rounds to zero."

Andreessen revealed that the Nixon administration planned to build 1,000 nuclear power plants by 2000 to achieve energy independence and eliminate U.S. involvement in the Middle East, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission blocked virtually all construction for 40 years. He noted that Three Mile Island resulted in zero deaths or documented illnesses, yet the panic destroyed America's nuclear energy future and forced continued reliance on carbon-emitting alternatives.