Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced plans Monday to further transition the Department of Energy ’s major loan-granting office away from its Biden-era focus on renewable power sources and toward boosting nuclear energy.

Wright said that the largest portion of funding from the Loan Programs Office , which was often referred to as former President Joe Biden’s “green bank,” would now be dedicated to nuclear energy.

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“The biggest use of those dollars by far — the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants, to get those first plants built

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