
Chris Wright, President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of energy, said he would make it a priority to enrich uranium domestically Wednesday at his confirmation hearing. “We have lost our ability to enrich uranium in this country, to construct plutonium pits, and to do so many critical things that are key to our nuclear arsenal,” Wright told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “I am highly motivated and highly concerned that we need to make progress on the safety and…