DOE Will Prioritize Nuclear Power Projects for Funding

November 12, 2025--Written by Danny Levin, Deputy Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said the Trump administration will prioritize nuclear power for DOE loans.Speaking at a conference hosted by the American Nuclear Society in Washington, D.C., he said he expects demand from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers will attract billions of dollars in equity capital for new nuclear capacity, adding the DOE could match that funding with