'We Have To Get In The Game': Mace Calls For The U.S. To Catch Up With France & Japan's Nuclear Tech

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During a campaign event on Wednesday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor of South Carolina, spoke about developments in nuclear energy and competition with France and Japan.

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00:00Energy, we have an energy crisis. The state spent nine billion dollars about a decade ago to build

00:05VC summer or a nuclear plant and you didn't get a damn thing back from it. Nine billion dollars

00:11up in smoke, poof, gone. We're not going to do that. I am actually working with the EPA right

00:16now on energy policy, but we're going to work smarter, not harder. We're going to have an all

00:20of the above approach. I'm working with the EPA now to be able to, for South Carolina, to be able

00:25to generate energy off backup generators, for example, sell it back to the grid. But two weeks

00:30ago, the state shut down five facilities so that we wouldn't have a rolling blackout here in South

00:35Carolina. We have an energy crisis and it's here. I want us to get in on these small modular reactors,

00:41the SMRs. We've got data centers popping up. We want to have small nuclear, more affordable,

00:46but we've got to get it here in the U.S. I recently met with the Japanese consulate. Japan and France

00:51are leading the world in small nuclear reactors. We have to get in the game and we have to fix

00:57it.

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