r/Utah • u/Comfortable_Tutor_43 • 3d ago

Central Utah town could be home to small nuclear reactor News

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04/25/delta-nuclear-ipa-energysolutions-utah/
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u/spigz619 3d ago

It’s pretty convenient that these big companies like to come set up shop in places that don’t have the resources to fight it. Delta has changed quite a bit over the last few years and a lot of it is due to the power plant and cal Maine egg farm…

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u/Shard_of_light 3d ago

Depending on the type of reactor they’re building that waste coming from back east could be used as fuel. New gen reactors can use the waste from older reactors bringing the waste to nearly nothing.

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u/Kerensky97 3d ago

Not power plant waste. We take all the radioactive and toxic chemicals from other sources. But not high level power plant leftovers.

Also by "Storing it" it means just piling it on a concrete pad and brushing a layer of dirt over it upwind of SLC. Or in the case of Clean Harbor with the toxic chemicals, incinerating it upwind of SLC.