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Do we like Christopher Hanson?

Our score: 6 out of 10. No harmful words or acts turned up, but there's little public record of his character beyond the job, so this is a cautious middle-high score.

Christopher Hanson isn't a celebrity in the usual sense. He's a nuclear safety regulator who sat on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the body that polices power reactors. Biden designated him chair from January 2021, after Trump first appointed him to the commission in 2020.

The story he's known for is how it ended. In June 2025 Trump removed him, and Hanson said he was dismissed without cause, contrary to existing law and precedent on removing independent agency appointees. Reports at the time described him as the first commissioner removed from the NRC since it was created in 1975.

On the harm test, we found nothing: no remarks about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or public health, and no climate denial. His job is nuclear safety oversight, and the coverage we read treats the firing as a fight about regulator independence, not about anything he said. That's an absence of evidence rather than a deep check, so take it as a pass on what we could find.

On the good-person side, no lawsuits, allegations or misconduct stories came up in our searches. Several outlets and nuclear safety groups objected to his removal, which suggests the industry saw him as a steady hand, though that's their view and not a measure of his character.

Honest gaps: several of the pages we wanted to read in full were blocked by a rate-limited safety check, so this leans on search summaries and wire coverage. We found no sign of a lawsuit over his removal and no clear picture of what he's doing now. If you want a firm verdict on his private character, this isn't it.