Basically it sounds like what happens in failed countries:

> “It’s not like the NRC asks for an extraordinary amount of information,” said a former nuclear official who was involved in reviewing Oklo’s failed application and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their work in the industry. “The NRC asks three questions: What is the worst that can happen, what are the systems, structures and components in your reactor that prevents that from happening, and how do you know that?”

>“Oklo would only answer them at a very high level,” the person said. “They wanted to say nothing bad can happen to our reactor.”

>DeWitte said Oklo had planned a robust public rebuttal but claims that at the time, NRC officials “threatened us, in a retributional way, not to issue a response letter to correct the record.”

>“Well, they’re gone now,” he added.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/26/nuclear-e...