Likely some gray areas to review as Wyoming legislators discuss expansion of nuclear waste sites

 

Map:  Someka

Headline:  Cowboy State Daily, 7/23/2025

Clair McFarland reports:

With private companies eyeing Wyoming as a home for small nuclear reactors and accompanying spent fuel disposal sites, lawmakers are weighing risk-versus-opportunity as they consider whether to green-light multiplying those sites. 

State law already allows temporary, high-level radioactive waste storage facilities within its borders — an allowance coming into play as TerraPower builds a nuclear power generation facility outside Kemmerer in the southwest corner of the state. 

Going into the 2026 winter lawmaking session, the question is whether to also let reactor manufacturers maintain waste facilities in-state.