(25 Feb 2025)
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Albuquerque, New Mexico – 25 February 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
“Los Alamos is the first national lab I visited. I’ve been sworn in only a few weeks ago. And today here at Sandia National Labs, a Manhattan project was critical for the United States to bring an earlier end to this war, saving American lives and setting us up to prevail in the Cold War, leading to that critical technology of nuclear science not just for weapons, but also for peaceful use, benefited our country tremendously. Now we have a second Manhattan Project coming, which is the very fast moving pace of AI. AI is going to change our world in ways we don’t appreciate so well today.”
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2. Museum exhibit
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
“We’ve got to modernize our nuclear fleet. The key thing about nuclear weapons is you don’t ever want to use them. But having reliable, robust, secure weapons is the key to keeping the peace. In the role they played in the last 75 years, it’s been simply tremendous. And where did the key work of that area happen? Right here in New Mexico.”
4. Artifacts in museum
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
“But like with the Manhattan Project, it’s critical that the United States wins this war, wins this competition, war is the wrong term there, wins this competition where the very beginning of AI research begins. And the first investigations into that…right here at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico.”
6. exterior lab
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
“President Trump got elected because people were upset about rising prices of housing, energy, of a lack of activity in our industries. If you make energy expensive and unreliable, you make people’s lives poorer. You shrink their opportunities and you make it easier for companies to say, I’m not going to manufacture stuff here, I’m going to move somewhere else. So a huge part of our remake is to figure out how to grow energy sources faster, how to make the infrastructure to move them around better. So I’m newly on this job. I’m thrilled. There’s so much opportunity.”
8. Sandia labs exhibit
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
“Nuclear is different again. Nuclear technology was born right here in this state, you know, 60, 70 miles north of where we stand today. But this is an area the United States led in. But we haven’t had a lot of progress in the last few decades. I think it’s critical. But again, mostly it’s getting government regulations overly burdensome, not really on human safety, but there’s such high bars that we’ve just seen almost nothing happen in next generation nuclear. Our goal is to get that out of the way, bring private businesses together, and figure out what kind of nudge we might need to get shovels in the ground and next generation small modular reactors happening. But I think they will be part of the solution of more energy, more reliable energy, more secure energy, more abundant energy. Love those two technologies."
10. Exhibit on Sandia
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
12. Exhibit at museum
STORYLINE:
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says it’s critical that the nation be out in front when it comes to artificial intelligence and that means having reliable and affordable sources of electricity to meet the growing demands of the technology sector.
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