Radiant Industries has scrapped its proposal to build a nuclear microreactor manufacturing facility outside the Natrona County town of Bar Nunn and announced it plans to build “its first mass-produced Kaleidos microreactor” facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, “on a Manhattan Project site.”
The announcement came Monday afternoon in the form of a letter-to-the-editor from Radiant Senior Director of Operations Matt Wilson and a press release announcing the company’s new focus on building the facility in Tennessee. The company cited Wyoming’s decades-long ban on storing spent nuclear fuel waste.
“Our decision came down to regulatory certainty,” Wilson said. “Our plan was to build our nuclear generators in the Cowboy State, using Wyoming-mined uranium, send them to customers (like our troops at remote bases), and bring them back for refueling, with the used fuel being safely and temporarily stored in above-ground containers at our factory.”…