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Chris Wright: “Nuclear is the technology out of those three that I think…”

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

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 14:33

My life has been about other energy sources. But it is very hard to compare what you can get from hydrocarbons at a cost flexibility, reliability, security perspective. Nuclear is the technology out of those three that I think has the greatest growth potential. because it can produce not just electricity but also process heat. I'll end with that last data. Nerdy point. 20% of global primary energy is delivered via electricity wires. (14:33–14:40)

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Asserts that nuclear technology has the greatest growth potential among fusion, solar, and geothermal.

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