NEWS: Nuclear’s comeback is getting a bridge loan from natural gas—and a vote of investor confidence.

GE Vernova and Blue Energy are planning a 2.5-GW Texas gas-plus-nuclear station for a data center project. The idea: use gas to get power online sooner, then add nuclear once the reactors begin splitting atoms.

Separately, heavy-hitter investment firm Brookfield and The Nuclear Company are partnering to develop Westinghouse AP1000 and AP300 reactor projects.

The throughline: Nuclear may be back in a big way, but nobody’s pretending it’s easy. The market is hunting for ways to de-risk the slog—bridge it with gas, wrap it in infrastructure capital…or why not both?