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DOE selects five states for nuclear fuel-cycle innovation campuses
The plan targets up to $50 billion in capital investment and about 25,000 jobs per campus while aiming to expand U.S. nuclear capacity to 400 GW by 2050.
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho as potential hosts for its Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, a Trump Administration effort tied to storing and repurposing spent nuclear fuel.
OilPrice reports the initiative is intended to support activities across the full nuclear fuel lifecycle, including fuel fabrication, enrichment, reprocessing used nuclear fuel, and related facilities, with the states receiving federal backing in exchange for hosting nuclear waste-related infrastructure.
The DOE said the campuses could attract up to $50 billion in capital investment, generate as much as $10 billion in state and local tax revenue, and create nearly 25,000 jobs with each campus.
The broader goal, according to the article, is to quadruple U.S. nuclear energy capacity from about 100 gigawatts to 400 gigawatts by 2050, with the waste-hosting sites positioned as part of that expansion.