Nuclear power will receive most of the money from the Energy Department's loan office as the Trump administration pushes to quickly break ground on new reactors, Secretary Chris Wright said on Monday.

"We have significant lending authority at the loan program office," the Secretary of Energy said at a conference hosted by the American Nuclear Society in Washington D.C. "By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants — to get those first plants built."

President Trump signed an executive order in May that called for the U.S. to break ground on 10 large nuclear reactors by 2030. Alphabet , Amazon , Meta Platforms and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars to restart old nuclear plants , upgrade existing ones , and

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