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Chris Wright: “If we can build something small and modularly in a plant, we…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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Senator Risch Questions Secretary Wright on Nuclear Energy

Published | Video Starts at 02:51

So we can move quickly to the next phase to license these to sell commercial electricity. But If we can build something small and modularly in a plant, we can drive down the cost of it. we can reduce the time it takes to build them, and we're going to dramatically grow American electricity that'll be deployable to remote locations or into giant data centers. (02:51–02:58)

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Asserts that building small modular reactors can reduce costs.

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