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Chris Wright: “We look to be on track to have three next generation nuclear…”

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

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright discusses Iran war at CERAWeek in Houston — 3/23/2026

Published | Video Starts at 11:19

Why this year? Because it's our 250th anniversary. That's an aggressive time frame. As I stand here today, We look to be on track to have three next generation nuclear reactors running. They won't be selling electricity into the grid, but all the nuclear systems will be running and generating the heat that would be used to produce electricity by July 4th of this year. That's exciting to me. We're reforming permitting for nuclear as well as major efforts in domestic uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, reprocessing and yes, permanent waste disposal sites via a competitive state level opt in process. (11:19–11:36)

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Asserts that three next-generation nuclear reactors are on track to be operational by July 4th, generating heat but not selling electricity.

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