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Witnesses urge congressional support for DOE programs, HALEU and fuel recycling to speed advanced reactor deployment
Summary
Industry witnesses and some members told the subcommittee that DOE programs and domestic HALEU fuel supplies are essential for commercializing advanced reactors; they warned proposed budget cuts to DOEOffice of Nuclear Energy and the ARDP could slow deployment.
Several witnesses told the subcommittee that federal programs and domestic fuel availability are key to scaling advanced reactors that could serve AI data centers.
Pat Schweiger, chief technology officer at Oklo, stressed DOE's role in enabling fuel availability and commercialization. He said Oklo has a site-use permit at Idaho National Laboratory and that "this program gets us to where we wanna be faster," referring to…
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