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Wright Discusses Nuclear Expansion for AI Demand in National News Desk Report

November 13, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:02:30

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What happened

A National News Desk report published November 13, 2025 covered Energy Secretary Chris Wright on nuclear power and AI-driven energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. The report said big tech firms including Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft are investing in nuclear energy to power AI systems, that 94 U.S. reactors provide about 19 percent of the country’s electricity, and that President Trump signed an executive order in May calling on the U.S. to break ground on 10 large nuclear reactors by 2030, as stated in the report.

Wright said big tech is a key part of relaunching American nuclear power because of its huge appetite for power, as he stated it. He announced that nuclear projects will receive the lion’s share of funding from the Energy Department’s loan program, saying the buildout will take private capital, technology, customers, and a little help from government, as he stated it. He said locations were being looked at carefully and would be announced in coming months, as he stated it.

The report said the administration struck a deal with Westinghouse to invest $80 billion to build the plants and that President Trump set a target of quadrupling U.S. nuclear capacity by 2050, as stated there. Asked about roadblocks, Wright named the supply chain — enough workers and supply chain to build as quickly as desired — with regulatory reform and capital in place, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The report fixes the nuclear program’s stated shape — 10 large reactors breaking ground by 2030, $80 billion with Westinghouse, quadrupled capacity by 2050, as stated there — against which DOE announcements can be tracked.

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The report states an executive-order goal of breaking ground on 10 large nuclear reactors by 2030 and quadrupling capacity by 2050, as stated there — long-horizon claims with near-term location announcements Wright said would come in months.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins The National News Desk’s Kayla Gaskins - November 13, 2025”, 2025-11-13 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-11-13). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.