Washington – In an extensive interview last week, Energy Minister Chris Wright It discusses how the United States has promoted nuclear power first for energy and defense purposes, first of all, rebooting other dormant “pit” production.
Under the leadership of the first Trump administration, the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) was trying to achieve the Pentagon’s goal of creating 80 such pits – from grapefruit to the size of a bowling ball.
Wright suggests He hopes to see this plan already realizes because, according to reports, J. Robert Oppenheimer is reportedly working to return to serious pit areas for production, according to Robert Oppenheimer, at the same Department of Energy Laboratory in New Mexico.
The United States has never imported P mines, but has never done any such major manufacturing industry since the end of the Cold War.
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“But those existing weapons are stored like anything else, over time. So we have realized that we have to restore the production of plutworms in our complex,” Wright said.
He promised: “Over the past 25 years, we have built one, and we will build more than 100 during the Trump administration.”
He said strengthening mine production and less military-conscious nuclear technology were priorities for Wright’s tenure.
Wright said he is working to reopen the closed Palisade nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan a few years ago.
Another major factory in the Hudson River opposite Haverstraw, New York, was closed especially against New York City under the then government. Andrew Cuomo. However, there is little effort to see reopening.
Wright said that in addition to large plants, the Department of Energy attempted to forward SMR or small modular reactor technology, which he said could be groundbreaking in powering underserved communities and important or sensitive sites that may be far from established large plants.
“Nuclear weapons and nuclear power began in the United States. We built a lot of power plants. By the mid-80s, we basically stopped building them.”
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“Part of our goal is to make this rebuilding stuff more efficient in the United States. But one thing about nuclear technology is that the site construction you have to build is getting slower and slower, so it’s more expensive to build.”
SMR relieves this pressure because the materials required for plants can be transported and assembled on smaller scales, but may make for greater per capita power.
Unlike the “rod house” in large-scale factories, SMR’s tools can be manufactured in factories and are more mobile.
Data centers, military bases or state concerns may basically propose installation site SMR, thereby providing a larger domestic power supply and a better overall grid.
“There is a huge private capital, around innovations in designing these plants. But again, you get a slow bureaucratic central government and still have to allow them and allow them to approve it. So, the nuclear Renaissance has been around for years.”
“That is, the regulatory system has been simplified. We just made a request for a proposal to fund efforts to speed up these efforts. In fact, there was a time ago that a similar person was sent to the Biden administration. They did not respond.”
States seeking to benefit from SMR have been supporting the technology.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a bill in 2022 to try to promote the construction of SMR, saying that “micronuclear technology has a potential role in providing low-cost, reliable power to communities, remote villages and resource development projects.”
“The bill will update state laws to allow us to pursue possibilities.”
Asked about opposition to nuclear energy, including closing the Indian Point, Wright said it was vulnerable to politicization, as with almost any other topic.
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Factory Vogtle is a two-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County near Waynesboro, Georgia. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)
“It simply doesn’t make sense,” he said. “That’s by far the safest way to generate energy in the entire history of the U.S. nuclear industry.”
“I know exactly how many people die from nuclear energy: zero.”
Wright said the nuclear power footprint was “very small” and responded to President Donald Trump’s criticism of over-reliance on wind and solar energy.
“you Get energy Whether the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. But, like any industry, it must live and thrive in order for the supply chain to grow. For decades, our country has not built nuclear power plants in our country, which means we have lost our industrial capacity. So we have to stand up again. ”
