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Wright Discusses Nuclear Energy's Future at the All-In Summit

September 9, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:30:36

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined a panel at the All-In Summit on September 8, 2025, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the appearance. The discussion opened on nuclear energy’s economics: the panel noted, as stated in the discussion, that a gigawatt-scale nuclear plant burns only about three to four million dollars’ worth of electricity value per day on roughly twelve thousand dollars of uranium fuel, and asked why nuclear takes so long and costs billions to build in the United States.

Wright responded, as he stated it, that nuclear’s energy density is unmatched and gives it running room in the long run, but that nuclear involves something people cannot see or understand, making it easy to scare people about — even though, as he put it, it is the safest form of energy production ever seen relative to the energy it has produced.

Wright said, as he stated it, that making permitting long and bureaucratic and over-engineering everything made nuclear expensive and slow, so that, in his words, the government has killed nuclear over the last four generations, and the Trump administration’s goal is to reverse that strangulation and let it fly again. He contrasted China, which he described as more pragmatic — designing for human safety — and building reactors faster and cheaper, with more than twenty under construction, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The appearance is part of the administration’s energy agenda — expanding supply, grid capacity, and permitting — and its claims about prices, projects, and markets are the record against which its energy promises will be measured.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Attends the All-In Summit – September 8, 2025”, 2025-09-09 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-09). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.