(Brigham City, UT) — There’s a new push to build a nuclear power plant. Utah leaders say Brigham City will eventually be home to what they call “the state’s first, full-scale nuclear ecosystem.” Yesterday, Governor Spencer Cox and others said a small collection of modular reactors will be built over […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A new state law aims to develop nuclear energy in Utah through small modular reactors. HB-249 establishes a Utah Nuclear Consortium and energy development zones. Officials at the Utah Office of Energy Development noted that permitting and building a plant will take 7-to-14 years. While […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah tax watchdog group and a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are calling on cities to pull out of a planned nuclear power plant project before it becomes too expensive. The Deseret News reports the Carbon Free Power Project is promoted […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. uranium mining companies and nuclear power plant operators are hoping for a bailout in the name of national security. President Donald Trump is scheduled to get recommendations Thursday from a federal task force studying ways to revive domestic uranium mining. The Nuclear Energy Institute representing uranium […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A plan to build the nation’s first small modular nuclear reactors to produce commercial power is a step closer. A Utah-based energy cooperative said Wednesday that it has sales contracts for enough carbon-free power to begin a license application process with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to […]
