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FILE - In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian, second right, listens to head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami as he visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)

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FILE - In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit as officials and media visit the site near Arak, Iran, Dec. 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

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FILE - This aerial view on Jan. 19, 2025, shows the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines, which has never produced a single watt of energy. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado, File)

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FILE - The operation floor inside the Unit 6 reactor building is pictured during a media tour at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Kariwa Village, Niigata prefecture, Japan on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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FILE - The Unit 6 reactor building is pictured during a media tour at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' (TEPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Kariwa Village, Niigata prefecture, Japan on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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FILE - Energy Secretary Chris Wright, center, and Under Secretary of Defense Michael Duffey, left, listen as Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics, discusses a microreactor developed by Valar to generate nuclear power for the military and commercial customers, Feb. 15, 2026, in-flight, on board a C-17. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly, File)

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FILE - Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks during an event, May 4, 2026, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)