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Secretary Wright on Fox Business: Saudi Nuclear Deal Held to Highest Safety and Safeguards Standards

July 22, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:01:02

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox Business that President Trump’s Middle East agenda has always been commerce, not conflict, and he described Saudi Arabia as a U.S. ally since its founding, according to the segment (transcript rendered from Arabic auto-captions). Discussing the potential Saudi nuclear agreement, Wright said it would be at the highest levels, with the maximum safety standards and nuclear safeguards ever applied, as stated in his remarks.

Wright said nuclear cooperation is long-term and strategic — about energy but also about partnership — and that America leads in the technology, according to the segment. He said the United States is launching a nuclear renaissance and that viewers would hear much more about American nuclear energy technology spreading around the world, as stated in his remarks.

The segment reported the administration’s estimate that the deal would provide billions of dollars to the U.S. nuclear energy sector, since American companies design many of the reactors sold worldwide, according to the broadcast. It also noted the agreement requires congressional review: under the Atomic Energy Act, Congress has the power to vote a resolution of disapproval, as stated in the segment.

Why it matters

The clip is the Energy Department’s public framing of the Saudi civil-nuclear deal — top-tier safeguards, U.S. reactor exports, and a congressional review step that will test the agreement on Capitol Hill.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox Business - July 22, 2026”, 2026-07-22 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-07-22). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.