Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Energy Department, told U.S. senators in his confirmation hearing on Wednesday his first priority is expanding domestic energy production including liquefied natural gas and nuclear power.

Nuclear energy is making a global comeback in view of an increasing demand for electricity, according to a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) released on Thursday. Interest in nuclear energy is greater than it has been since the oil crisis of the 1970s,

Uranium Energy claims to be "America's largest and fastest growing uranium company." NuScale Power is an upstart looking to build small-scale modular nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is not new, but it is going through something of a renaissance today.

Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright, at his Senate confirmation hearing, also recognized that climate change is a “real and global phenomenon.”

Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would promote all sources of American energy, while also acknowl

Donald Trump’s choice for energy secretary said the US should expand production of fossil fuels along with nuclear power, geothermal and other technologies to make the nation’s energy more reliable and affordable.