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Eighteen Executives at One Nuclear Company Gave Chuck Fleischmann $72,500 in Six Weeks. He Writes the Budget for the Agency Covering Up to Half the Cost of Their Reactor Project.

Eighteen Executives at One Nuclear Company Gave Chuck Fleischmann $72,500 in Six Weeks. He Writes the Budget for the Agency Covering Up to Half the Cost of Their Reactor Project.

X-energy is building a nuclear fuel plant in Fleischmann's district with a Department of Energy cost share. Between January 26 and March 11, 2026, its CEO, president, chief scientist, chief nuclear officer and 14 more colleagues wrote checks to the congressman who writes the DOE budget.