Kemmerer

No wilderness areas, no national parks, no, no areas that are covered by grazing leases, for example.

So I think Kemmerer is the very best example.

Kemmerer is surrounded by BLM lands.

You've got the development that's going on over there.

Many of the workers are traveling hundreds of miles a day to go to work.

Kemmerer needs additional housing.

The Cowboy State Daily has actually reported on that.

And this was a mechanism that Mike Lee introduced.

I like it.

Now, what happened, Kemmerer, uh, obviously Kemmerer's the, what's gonna be the new place for the Bill Gates TerraPower.

Meanwhile, in order to get, uh, TerraPower off the ground, we gotta have people to work there, and people to work there are not living in Kemmerer right now.

Have you ever been to Kemmerer? There's nobody there.

So we gotta-

Mm-hmm

Um, they build apartments, and I guess they now have, in the middle of the job, backed out.

What happened, Kate?

It's mostly rolling plains, vast skylines, and just a few people scattered every square mile.

In fact, its largest town, Kemmerer, is home to just 2,500 residents.

Yet this county's transplanting residents have a mean income of $149,000, an outsized number for a region with little going on.

Here, like Teton County, people are drawn to its landscapes.

Mm.

On that half a million acres, all the way up to Kemmerer, Wyoming, Kemmerer Highway, uh, to the interchange up by Cokeville.

So y- you know, it, it's not a lot.

It's a, it's a rural ranching community, uh, with good values and good people.

Yeah.

Uh, who, so where...

If somebody, if, if somebody has kids in Bear River, where would they go to school? Kemmerer?

Evanston.

Initial applications under Part fifty-seven are projected at six to twelve months under ideal conditions, and substantial revision is expected before the rule is final.

At a July twenty-two, two thousand and twenty-six NRC public meeting, TerraPower said it is weighing both Part fifty-three and Part fifty-seven for Kemmerer Unit One, while it plans a Part fifty operating license application by March two thousand and twenty-eight.

How does the DOE Reactor Pilot Program work? The DOE Reactor Pilot Program lets a company build and test a first-of-a-kind reactor under DOE authorization outside an NRC license.

Executive Order fourteen thousand three hundred and one, signed May twenty-third, two thousand and twenty-five, entitled Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy, set a goal of three reactors at criticality by July fourth, two thousand and twenty-six, and DOE named ten companies in August two thousand and twenty-five.

And as we have seen coal start to shut down, um, primarily for economic reasons, but those are aging coal plants and also obviously they have a lot of emissions, and those environmental costs are s- were at one point starting to be accounted for more comprehensively.

And so about 20- in 2023, um, the Rocky Mountain Power IRP, the power resource plan essentially, said that they were going to open two nuclear power plants similar to the Kemmerer plant that's being proposed, the, the Bill Gates plant, if you will, um, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

They were gonna open two of those in Hunter- at Hunter and Huntington by 2032.

And so I remember talking to the mayor of Price at the time.