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Chris Wright: “We can move quickly to the next phase to license these…”

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

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Senator Risch Questions Secretary Wright on Nuclear Energy

Published | Video Starts at 02:46

And we have Nuclear Regulatory Commission personnel detailed to the DOE working with us on these permitting processes for these test and demonstration reactors so that they're getting early insight and knowledge and seeing the evolution of these reactors. So We can move quickly to the next phase to license these [reactors] 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, … (02:46–02:52)

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Asserts that there is a plan to license reactors for commercial electricity sales.

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