Advancements in Nuclear Reactor Technology

The first new privately-funded advanced reactors to turn on the United States in over four decades.

And making sure that these groundbreaking designs were

safe to build and test so quickly was a challenge

that required a historic partnership between these innovative companies and our administration.

We have brilliant nuclear people.

We have a lot of brilliant people.

But we have brilliant nuclear people on our staff.

In the past, it often took six years

or more to approve a reactor design.

If they were ever approved at all,

most of them didn't get approved, and maybe rightfully so.

But now America is building again.

America is dreaming again.

And we're leading the world in pioneering the next generation of nuclear power.

There's nobody even close.

We've taken a lead over the last two years.

It has been, I hope, insurmountable.

We'll see.

But let me ask Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy,

Michael Kratos, who's been absolutely fantastic.