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The Pentagon has announced that a new nuclear design is going to be assembled in our region. It's called Project Pele, and it aims to produce a mobile nuclear microreactor.
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Uranium mining in the state dates back to the 1950s, experiencing several boom-and-bust cycles since then.
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70 years ago, experimenters first proved that nuclear power could be used as more than just a weapon.
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A federal fund that compensates people sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing is set to expire next year. However, a new proposal to both extend and expand it.
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Senate President Dan Dockstader of Afton has had an interesting couple of years. Managing through COVID-19 and numerous budget challenges were interesting enough, but he's also been working to either stop the shut down of coal-fired power plants in the state or at least slow the process down.
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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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Wyoming's economy was built on energy. But with the structural decline of coal and fragile oil and gas markets, the constant question has become, what's next? How long can this dependence on energy revenue last? So, are citizens happy with the state's response? Wyoming Public Radio's Cooper McKim visited Rock Springs to ask locals: what do you think?
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The Joint Minerals Committee met in Laramie to discuss a host of topics, including the proposed Natrium project.
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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...