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Toxic waste or economic fuel? Effort quietly underway to bring nuclear to rural Colorado

Toxic waste or economic fuel? Effort quietly underway to bring nuclear to rural Colorado

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying 鈥榥o鈥� to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, however, some see the prospect of storing this spent fuel as an economic opportunity. This is a three-part series by our Northern Colorado Center for Investigative Reporting.
Workers pose with a new train car designed to carry highly-radioactive nuclear waste from power plants around the country. An economic development group in northwest Colorado is entertaining the idea of pursuing a storage facility for the waste.
Courtesy U.S. Department of Energy
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Many states have resisted nuclear waste storage plans. Northwest Colorado is quietly opening the door.
Scott Franz
As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying 鈥榥o鈥� to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, however, some see the prospect of storing this spent fuel as an opportunity.
A landscape photo shows a town and bare cottonwood trees set in the middle of a wide valley in the mountains.
Scott Franz
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KUNC
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Replacing mining jobs with a nuclear waste facility? Those in leadership have mixed feelings
Scott Franz
As northwest Colorado loses coal jobs and dollars, a small group is raising the possibility of nuclear waste storage as a replacement. Community leaders in coal country have mixed feelings about the idea.
Jeri Fry, the co-founder of Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste, poses in front of a sign warning about the presence of radioactive waste near her home in Canon City. Fry takes tours to the superfund site to educate residents about ongoing cleanup efforts.
Scott Franz
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Mistrust bubbles up as nuclear waste storage talks come to rural Colorado
Scott Franz
Ca帽on City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear waste watchdog group wants communities that are considering partnering with the government on future waste storage plans to have the full picture of the energy cycle and its history.