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Wyoming is a place where in large parts of the state oil wells as far as the eye can see and giant open-pit coal mines are normal and acceptable. Look at Gillette, WY and scroll around a satellite view, you've got open pit mines stretching for 70 miles and and the endless checkerboard of pumpjacks and access paths across the plains.

They're also a place with a erratic economy largely dependent on declining commodities and a past and present willingness to accept environmental damage and personal/community health risks for economic gain.

I am not suggesting a nuclear plant should cause any substantial amount of such risks, just that I think the opposition in many places in WY would be a lot more muted than in most other places you could look to place a reactor in the country.




They also bitterly protest that windmills permanently defile Wyoming’s natural beauty.


Which is a shame, because the wind blowing across Wyoming is savage.


Some admittedly unscientific looking at the local news FB pages that shared this (I live here) show the exact kind of ignorant, fear-based NIMBYism that you'd see anywhere else. Anyone trying to bring facts to that debate was haha-reacted and shouted down. Fukushima this and Chernobyl that.




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