In this episode of Eye on the Issues, we sit down with Eli Bebout, a former Wyoming legislator with nearly three decades of public service, including time as Speaker of the House and Senate President. Eli reflects on his career, his passion for Wyoming, and the current pressing issues facing the state.Our conversation dives into Wyoming's potential...

by Wyoming Liberty Group TerraPower, the nuclear company founded by Bill Gates, recently announced that it had awarded a contract to a firm to design, test and do other stuff for something called a "sodium-air heat exchanger" and "air stack structures and equipment for the Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project currently under construction in Kemmer...

by Wyoming Liberty Group Recently, the state legislature's Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee passed draft legislation that would open the door in Wyoming to the temporary storage of nuclear fuel waste. Temporary, by the way, is a relative term. More on this in a moment. But what this means, in the short term, is this: We all nee...

by Wyoming Liberty Group We may not fully realize it, but it appears that Wyoming is fast becoming a key staging ground in the race involving the United States against rivals Russia and China for domination in nuclear power--not just for weapons but also for civilian use. This nuclear industry race may explain why so many vested interests are pushi...

by Wyoming Liberty Group Not to state the obvious, but there's a big difference between $26 million and $4 billion. Like three billion nine hundred seventy-four million, if the math is correct. That's a lot of kibbles—and zeroes. But that's the gulf between the promise of annual revenue and the facts as we know them when it comes to a proposal to s...

by Wyoming Liberty Group Bill Gates professes to know what's best for our state. Yes, that guy. The cofounder of tech giant Microsoft. By the way, being a billionaire doesn't necessarily make one wise. But in Gates' case, it does give him some serious currency in the cowboy state, where his company, TerraPower, is building a nuclear plant. Gates la...

by Wyoming Liberty Group It's a basic mathematical equation: A lack of money + a need to pay for stuff = pressure. Pressure to find another source of revenue, if you're the state government in Wyoming. And if we're not careful, we'll end up with a deal with the proverbial devil. It's a dangerous promethean promise if the conversation has to do with...

In this important episode, we sit down with Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tula Rosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, to discuss the critical lessons Wyoming can learn from New Mexico's experience with nuclear waste. As Wyoming considers becoming a storage site for out-of-state nuclear waste, Tina shares her personal testimony on the devastating heal...

This fact sheet is produced by the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. It is important for our Legislators in WY and the public at large to be informed about the realities of nuclear energy. The promises of green funding by our ever expanding federal green policies are not viable programs for the State of WY to take a risk. Nuclear react...