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Chris Wright: “We had an announcement last week of a 17 and a half billion…”

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

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Secretary Wright Joins Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo - July 2, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 04:24

So most of the expansion that's going to happen in the next few years for the data centers being built now will be from natural gas. But nuclear is going to be close behind, close behind both large reactors. We had an announcement last week of a 17 and a half billion dollar loan program to get 10 large scale reactors built. to reach 1.1 gigawatts. So think of that. 11 gigawatts. That's 10 million homes of electricity. But a lot of it will be used to power new data centers and new manufacturing in the United States. (04:24–04:33)

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Asserts that there is a $17.5 billion loan program to build 10 large-scale nuclear reactors.

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