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Almost three years ago, an unlikely relationship formed between the declining coal town of Kemmerer and one of the richest people in the world: Bill Gates. That’s because his nuclear company, TerraPower, announced it’d chosen Kemmerer for a “first of its kind” power plant. It promised to pump life back into the economy. But unless you’re deeply embedded in the energy world, it mostly just felt like a lot of talk to residents – until this month, when the project broke ground.
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was established in 1990 and has helped more than 40,000 people who developed medical problems after being exposed to radiation through government nuclear tests, uranium mining, and other toxic fallout. Existing protections are set to expire on June 7 unless Congress intervenes.
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U.S. support for nuclear power is the highest it's been in a decade. And there are a number of proposals for new plants in our region. That could mean an uptick in domestic uranium mining.
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The University of Wyoming (UW) is connecting students with top-level energy researchers this week. The hope is to brainstorm ideas for the state’s energy future.During UW’s National Lab Day, workers from 17 National Laboratories will descend upon campus.
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Governor Mark Gordon held his State of the State address on Wednesday, Jan. 11, and he focused a lot on energy.There was an apparent Wyoming versus the federal government mentality in Gordon’s speech.
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The future of energy in our region and beyond was a focus on the final day of the Mountain West Innovation Summit held in Laramie.Former Governor of Wyoming Dave Freudenthal and PacifiCorp’s Wyoming Vice President Sharon Fain were keynote speakers.
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Bill Gates' company TerraPower and the utility Rocky Mountain Power have picked the Wyoming coal town of Kemmerer as the location for a $4 billion, electricity-generating nuclear reactor. Optimism is high but the technology's unproven.
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For years during the Cold War, large swaths of land in Nevada were used for atomic weapons testing. Nuclear bombs were dropped just miles from small...