Utah may be home to a nuclear innovation campus, Department of Energy announced

By: Alixel Cabrera

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: July 28, 2026

Words: 783

Last Updated: 5 days, 20 hours ago

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A campus to develop nuclear technologies may be coming to Utah, as the U.S. Department of Energy shortens its list of potential hosts for new “nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses,” the federal agency announced Tuesday.

Apart from Utah, other four states — Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho — are in the running to build campuses that, according to the Department of Energy, “could support activities across the full nuclear fuel lifecycle, including fuel fabrication, …

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