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- **Posted:** 2025-07-17T18:35:11.000+00:00
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President Trump today announced $92 billion in AI-related investments, one of which is 10 new nuclear reactors to be built by Westinghouse in partnership with Google.

The US has only built three reactors in the past 30 years, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The first is a 2016 project in Tennessee. Two followed, both at the same site in Georgia—one in 2023 and one in 2024. (The latter is not shown on the graph below, which contains data up to 2023.)

Both Georgia reactors are the same Westinghouse model the company plans to build again for its next set of 10, called the AP100. But that project came in $18 billion over budget and seven years behind schedule. The federal government under President Obama issued an $8.33 billion loan to help guarantee its completion, but Westinghouse still filed for bankruptcy in 2017 in large part due to its troubles in Georgia, Reuters reports.

What's different this time? Westinghouse is throwing AI at the problem. It's partnering with Google Cloud AI streamline production, making it "an efficient, repeatable process."

"By partnering with Google Cloud...we can accelerate the deployment of new AP1000 units while implementing powerful AI technologies that will optimize the construction and operations of nuclear power plants," says Sumner. The CEO says the nuclear industry is "reinvigorated" after Trump issued four executive orders to promote the industry in May.

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