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Cathie Wood Redirects Elon Musk's DOGE Focus Toward Nuclear Energy Amid Regulatory Challenges: Here's How Oklo, Cameco, Centrus Energy And Other Stocks Performed

Nuclear energy stocks and ETFs have come to the fore as ARK Invest’s founder Cathie Wood reshared the firm’s study on how regulatory hurdles and anti-nuclear sentiment have caused cost overruns and rendered nuclear energy less cost-competitive than natural gas today.

This comes as Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is all set to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with Republican politician Vivek Ramaswamy. As the task force promises to dismantle bureaucracy, reduce regulations, and cut wasteful expenditures, ARKinvest tried to redirect DOGE’s official page on X (formerly Twitter) to focus on the regulatory hurdles that nuclear energy as a sector has faced in the last 20 years.


Resurfacing this chart amid all the @DOGE talk.

U.S. nuclear construction costs declined in accordance with Wright's Law before being derailed by regulatory changes in the 1970s…

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What Happened: “The International Energy Agency has identified nuclear energy as vital to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, yet nuclear power in the United States has ...

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