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The world’s only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

Baua Electric

Once it comes online, the Natrium demonstration plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, will be a fully functioning commercial power plant. TerraPower will first build the non-nuclear parts of the plant while the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews TerraPower’s construction permit application, which it accepted last month. Get started here.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place. Many still-speculative small modular reactor designs might deliver just a few hundred megawatts. (In In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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