Mary Dickson, a downwinder from Salt Lake City who has survived thyroid cancer, said when she first saw Utah’s pro-nuclear billboards earlier this year while driving to Idaho, “I wanted to scream.” The state-funded billboards with messages like “nuclear energy is cleaner than a candle” and “nuclear plants emit less radiation than bananas” were on […]

In a federal contest for the chance to host a nuclear fuel fabrication and waste disposition site, New Hampshire will not advance to the next round.  The Granite State is not named on a list of contenders for a possible “nuclear lifecycle innovation campus” envisioned by the Trump administration, according to a Tuesday press release […]

A campus to develop nuclear technologies may be coming to Utah, as the U.S. Department of Energy shortens its list of potential hosts for new “nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses,” the federal agency announced Tuesday.  Apart from Utah, other four states — Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho — are in the running to build campuses that, […]