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Chris Wright: “We'll have three next generation reactors critical meaning…”

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

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Chris & Liz Wright on Iran, Solar, Nuclear, & Card Counting | KMP Ep.34

Published | Video Starts at 13:54

We should have the first sort of next generation nuclear electrons, hopefully on the grid during this administration. That'll be from a small modular reactor. To get it done that fast, that's, that's aggressive. We'll have three next generation reactors critical meaning running their nuclear systems by July 4th of this summer. But for electrons on the grid, we're talking, you know, the end of this decade into next decade. But nuclear was 6 1/2% of global energy in the year 2000. (13:54–14:03)

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