U.S. Energy Secretary Nominee "Should Expand Small Nuclear Power Plant, Gas"

Energy Secretary-designate Chris Wright, who will oversee energy policy in the second U.S. administration of Donald Trump, has said he will increase nuclear power and LNG, or liquefied natural gas production."Commercial small-module reactors, including SMR and LNG, need to expand energy production and lower energy costs," Wright nominee
said during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing.

He also said he would reduce his dependence on uranium from Russia and China, saying, "The U.S. should lead the export of nuclear power plants.""We will allocate funds in an efficient way to increase the supply of cheap, stable and safe energy," he added, avoiding immediate answers regarding the clean energy support of

Inflation Reduction Act.The nominee

right is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, a company specializing in fracturing hydraulic fracturing corporations for shale gas extraction, and also serves as a director of SMR firm O'Clock.