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Radiating Justice Prototype Map: A Research and Practice Brief for Engaging Communities in Advanced Nuclear Energy Facility Siting
Budowle, Rachael Stubblefield, Nicholas Djokić, Denia Armstrong, Reagan Meehan, Molly Young, Cade Sullivan, Mikaela
Budowle, Rachael
Stubblefield, Nicholas
Djokić, Denia
Armstrong, Reagan
Meehan, Molly
Young, Cade
Sullivan, Mikaela
Abstract
In November 2021, the private company TerraPower, in partnership with electric utility PacifiCorp and the United States Department of Energy (DOE) via its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), announced plans to site its Natrium advanced nuclear reactor near the retiring Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, located in southwest Wyoming. This project marks the first commercial advanced nuclear energy facility to begin construction in the United States. This brief summarizes our Radiating Justice Map Prototype and chapter in a longer Cultural History report and visualizes historical cases relevant to environmental justice across the nuclear fuel cycle and in relative geographic proximity to Kemmerer, WY. Through this effort, we 1) identified, documented, and analyzed environmental justice aspects of relevant statewide and regional historical nuclear cases, and 2) developed an interactive storymap to spatially visualize these cases.
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2025-07-17
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University of Wyoming Libraries
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Engaging Communities in Nuclear Siting,advanced nuclear energy,community engagement,nuclear facility siting,natrium reactor,deep mapping