{"id":244913,"date":"2026-10-04T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/u-s-to-lend-4-2-billion-to-vistra-to-boost-nuclear-power-output-source-says"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:03:34","slug":"u-s-to-lend-4-2-billion-to-vistra-to-boost-nuclear-power-output-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/u-s-to-lend-4-2-billion-to-vistra-to-boost-nuclear-power-output-source-says","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to lend $4.2 billion to Vistra to boost nuclear power output, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-to-lend-4-2-billion-to-vistra-to-boost-nuclear-power-output-source-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright will announce the loan on Monday at Vistra\u2019s nuclear plant along Lake Erie in Ohio, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The loan would be used to boost \u2060power \u200coutput, or \u201cuprate\u201d at least three of Vistra\u2019s \u2060four nuclear stations, which can be done without requiring new licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy and Vistra did not immediately respond to \u200crequests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright will announce the loan on Monday at Vistra\u2019s nuclear plant along Lake Erie in Ohio, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The loan would be used to boost \u2060power \u200coutput, or \u201cuprate\u201d at least three of Vistra\u2019s \u2060four nuclear stations, which can be done without requiring new licenses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}