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Next generation nuclear breaks ground in small town 

    • Not everyone is ready for it By Zak Sonntag Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Triangle Park in downtown Kemmerer, best known for being the location of the JC Penney “mother store,” offers a high…

SVI Radio Interview: Chief of Staff Stephen Allen

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Independent Notes: Great-grandparents and Nuclear power.

  On Monday, just outside of Kemmerer, I watched as they turned the first shovelfuls of dirt for the TerraPower Natrium Reactor 1 Demonstration Project. My mind was on my great-grandparents, not necessarily on nuclear power. I was thinking about…

Lincoln County receives significant impact funds

  The growth in Lincoln County is ramping up to another level with large industrial projects underway and in the planning stages. From the TerraPower nuclear unit which held a groundbreaking on Monday of this week, to trona mining and…

(Video) TerraPower breaks ground on Kemmerer Nuclear Plant

TerraPower celebrated the start of construction on the Natrium Reactor 1 Demonstration Project with a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, June 10 a few miles south of Kemmerer. This marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction….

Kemmerer mayor, city administrator attend energy conference

  KEMMERER (WNE) — Kemmerer received attention at the Energy Communities Alliance conference for leading the way as the first community in the country to build a natrium nuclear reactor.  Kemmerer City Administrator Brian Muir and Mayor Bill Thek traveled…

SVI Radio Interview: Brian Muir, Kemmerer City Administrator

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Uranium is back: Production at Johnson County facility to begin in August

By Alex Hargrave Buffalo Bulletin Via- Wyoming News Exchange BUFFALO — Uranium Energy Corp. has announced that it will resume operations at its mine and processing plant in southern Johnson County in August. The company and its board have been…

Uranium Energy and Terra Power have an agreement for Kemmerer 

• Agreement focused on fuel supply.  The Natrium nuclear plant moved a step closer to production when Uranium Energy and TerraPower announced a working memorandum of understanding for a fuel supply. The Natrium demonstration project in Kemmerer will be a…