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Utah officials boost nuclear campus for Tooele.

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Miss: Going Nuclear What could possibly go wrong? Nothing much, according to Gov. Spencer Cox and a bevy of officials. Nuclear power is a rare opportunity, an economic driver, and well, it doesn’t come via the Strait of Hormuz. So the governor has posited a “nuclear fuel lifecycle campus” near Tooele, which has a long-suffering history with radiologic materials at the EnergySolutions site.

It’s always something when it comes to nuclear wastes, but this time it’s different. It would handle everything “from uranium enrichment, conversion, fuel fabrication, reprocessing and disposition of fuel,”…

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