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Chris Wright: “We're going to see the massive driving down of the costs to…”

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

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Goldman Sachs MD Neil Mehta speaks to Energy Sec. Chris Wright at energy conference — 1/7/2026

Published | Video Starts at 35:10

… parts for smaller plants that is a way I think that over, not, not, not next year, not two years from now, but over the next 10 or 20 years We're going to see the massive driving down of the costs to produce plants for small modular reactors over the next 10 or 20 years. reactors there. Well if one or two of them go down you've got some redundancy built in where if you have one big plant and you have a problem with that one big plant, it's harder to provide this very high reliability. (35:10–35:29)

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Asserts that costs for small modular reactors will decrease significantly over the next 10 to 20 years.

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