Nuclear Energy

Republican Celeste Maloy and Democrat Kent Udell also offered competing approaches to energy, water, and wildfire management.

First Congressional District candidates Riley Owen and Ben McAdams found common ground on tariffs and immigration, but split on Medicaid, Social Security, and the role of government.

City leaders voted unanimously for a plan to develop a nuclear training and research campus on their USU campus. It marks an early step in bringing a nuclear energy industrial revolution to Utah.

In other news, fire evacuations in Millard and Summit County were lifted. And, after a lackluster ski season, Park City Mountain is looking ahead to its next opening.

A new generation of small nuclear reactors is poised to come online in the next few years. Safety experts worry the Trump administration has chosen speed over safety.

One reactor in Utah and two others in Idaho had already "gone critical," or managed to turn on a test reactor. The Trump administration wanted at least three by the country's 250th birthday.

In a test at the Idaho National Lab last week, workers were able to turn the reactor on and safely control a nuclear fission reaction, though it hasn't produced electricity yet.

It was initially proposed as a full-scale nuclear power plant, but now will focus on small modular reactors. In other news, wildlife officials safely removed a bear from a Park City neighborhood.

Our hosts discuss the Supreme Court hearing oral argument on birthright citizenship, President Trump's Iran war address to the nation, and the judge halting Trump's White House ballroom construction.

Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen, Robert Gehrke, and Samantha Moilanen join Tom Williams to talk about the week’s top stories, including a proposal to for Utah to take on nuclear waste.