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Chris Wright: “The Trump administration is all in to bring back science, a…”

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

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… the late 1950s, in the first 25 or 30 years and we created the NRC, we ramped up fear politics and we shut down and essentially smothered our nuclear industry. The Trump administration is all in to bring back science, a focus on science and safety and not on fear and bureaucracy and help re stand up the nuclear industry. And the reason we're doing that is if you run the math, nuclear can become a cheap source of energy. It will not be next year or five years from now that straight math says it can. (30:50–31:02)

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Asserts that the Trump administration is focused on reviving the nuclear industry with an emphasis on science and safety.

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