July 22, 2025
After trip to Idaho National Laboratory, Campbell County commissioners unsure about nuclear’s future in county
GILLETTE, Wyo. — The Campbell County Commission had the opportunity recently to tour the Idaho National Laboratory, a government-operated nuclear research facility, to assess the viability of expanding the county’s energy portfolio into nuclear. Coming back from their trip to report their opinions back to the county, the commissioners still had some glaring concerns.
The commission’s chief anxiety surrounded the management of nuclear waste. Not only were they concerned about where nuclear waste produced in the county would be stored — with Commissioner Jerry Means likening what the county could turn into with unattended waste to an armpit — the board members were also unsure of how waste management policy could come back to harm the county.
When a company is responsible for the storage of nuclear waste, what happens if that company bankrupts and land that it’s leased to house waste is suddenly unmanaged? It was Campbell County Commission Chairman Kelley McCreery’s understanding that the land would go back to the county…
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