Trevor Hughes
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512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
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All that coal that's been mined is turned into electricity.
And so this is a community that that sort of takes very seriously that mission to power America.
Um
And so people are very pleased at the idea that they would be an international leader, that people might come from all over the world to see this project and to say, yes, this is a safe project, yes, this is an effective project.
We would welcome this in our community as well.
The folks who are opposed have a lot of concerns.
And nuclear power in this country has been, you know, fraught with controversy for decades.
Um, people remember Three Mile Island, they remember Chernobyl, and so.
You know, there is a an uphill battle in in terms of public information.
Some of the folks I talked to are just sort of deeply skeptical of why someone like Bill Gates would pick their town.
Um they're deeply skeptical as to why it would be in the middle of nowhere Wyoming.
And they have concerns about the nuclear waste and and what that could mean for environmental implications, you know, decades down the road.
I think there's some folks who who look at Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and say, these guys are super rich.
Why do they need taxpayer assistance?
I would say that this is actually a project that got started under the Obama administration.
There has been a push for a very long time for the American government to support nuclear power as a transition into the green energy economy.
Uh, you know, nuclear power is considered a carbon-free power source, like solar and like wind, but not like coal.
And so the federal government has been pushing this project as a way of
of of demonstrating that this is something that can get done.
And and the idea is that this becomes faster and easier to build once you've you've made a few of them, right?
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