Gary Whitton/Shutterstock Save for later Print Download Share Utah this week became the latest interior Western US state to roll out policy support for new nuclear deployment, highlighting a sizeable wave of nuclear energy interest in a region with no operating reactors. Utah Governor Spencer Cox this week signed laws building out state government infrastructure to backstop new nuclear and inked memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with his counterparts in Wyoming and Idaho to cooperate regionally on nuclear energy policy and development. The past couple of weeks have also seen early agreements toward advanced reactor and small modular reactor (SMR) deployment in the state.
