Tech giants including Amazon (AMZN), Meta Platforms (META), and Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google have signed on to a nuclear industry pledge to support tripling nuclear power capacity by 2050.

Alongside an energy conference in Houston this week, the tech firms joined dozens of other financial institutions, countries, and companies from the nuclear industry that have signed the pledge.

The World Nuclear Association said the pledge "recognizes nuclear's potential to expand beyond traditional grid electricity, providing abundant, continuous energy to support successful and cost-competitive operations for energy users." The organization said 439 active nuclear reactors currently provide about 9% of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:world's energy.

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