{"id":9905,"date":"2025-10-18T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:08:07","slug":"abbott-speaks-at-2025-texas-nuclear-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9905\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott speaks at 2025 Texas Nuclear Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke at the 2025 Texas Nuclear Summit on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the summit, the governor spoke on how alternative sources of power, like nuclear energy, are becoming more important as the state of Texas grows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhether it be population growth, business growth or economic growth, that alone necessitates more power. It necessitates alternative sources of power, ways we can be additive to our power platform,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cThe lifeblood of every business increasingly depends on affordable, reliable power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the event, the Texas Nuclear Alliance also presented Abbott with the \u201cAtomic Texan Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this year, Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/billlookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&amp;Bill=HB14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:signed a law to establish the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">signed a law to establish the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office<\/a>. That law also created a $350 million fund meant to incentivize the development of the nuclear energy industry across the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas Nuclear Alliance President Reed Clay and TANEO Director Jarred Shaffer joined Abbott at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke at the 2025 Texas Nuclear Summit on Friday. At the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9077,5764,392,9073,9076,9075,9074,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-business-growth","tag-economic-growth","tag-greg-abbott","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-summit","tag-power-platform","tag-sources-of-power","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}