TerraPower selects Kemmerer, Wyoming for the first Natrium plant

TerraPower/Natrium (Kemmerer Unit 1)

TerraPower selected a site near PacifiCorp's retiring Naughton coal plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming for its Natrium demonstration reactor, a sodium-cooled fast reactor paired with molten salt energy storage. The project is cost-shared by the DOE's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program and represents Wyoming's first commercial nuclear plant.

• Location: near Kemmerer, Wyoming by retiring Naughton coal plant; first commercial nuclear reactor in Wyoming
• DOE backing nearly $2B; cost-shared project through Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program
• Generates ~3M MWh clean power annually; avoids ~2M metric tons CO2 annually; creates thousands of construction and permanent jobs