Nuclear power plant construction likely to reverse population decline in Kemmerer Wyoming

 

Population, photo and map:  Wikipedia, World Population Review (2026)

Headline:  Cowboy State Daily, 3/22/2026

Renee Jean reports:

All through the winter, there have been 110 workers raising the Test and Fill facility. But TerraPower will soon be moving in hundreds more workers to build the actual nuclear plant. 

At peak, the Bill Gates-backed company has said there will be more than 1,600 construction workers in Kemmerer working on the plant at one time. 

Those may be temporary, but once the nuclear plant is finished, there will be at least 200 to 250 permanent, high-paying jobs. Some estimates have been drifting higher in private conversations. 

Bowen has been told the plant is highly scalable. There's already been some talk suggesting a second nuclear power unit isn’t out of the question. That would mean more workers, maybe 400 permanent jobs instead. 

Each new job could support as many as three additional jobs, adding between 1,150 to 1,500 jobs to Kemmerer’s economy.