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Jim Risch: “Turning the switch on a micro reactor is a big deal.”

Featuring: Jim Risch, Republican | U.S. Senate Idaho

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Senator Risch Questions Secretary Wright on Nuclear Energy

Published | Video Starts at 03:51

Capitalists who have money to invest are stepping up and doing what they're doing. They recognize that this race to developing the micro reactor is very lucrative. Whoever gets there first. Turning the switch on a micro reactor is a big deal. It's important. But the guy that builds the factory can build the parts and put them on a truck and haul them off and put them together out on site. (03:51–03:55)

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Asserts the significance of activating a microreactor.

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