TerraPower breaks ground for nuclear power plant

KEMMERER — Monday, June 10, may have started like a normal day for Kemmerer, but as black vans rolled in single file to pick up more than 200 people to shuttle them to the official TerraPower groundbreaking ceremony, it was apparent this was no ordinary day.

Heavy excavating equipment set against the big open sky with the Naughton coal plant — which is scheduled for retirement — across the way, served as an appropriate backdrop for the event.

Attached to a dozer and an excavator were the American and Wyoming flags, which blew gently in the breeze at the location of America’s first-ever advance...