Price City has opted not to join other cities in a nuclear power project in Idaho.
At a meeting on April 11 the City Council voted unanimously to decline a contract with the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS).
The UAMPS proposal is to build a series of small nuclear reactors. It is new technology, building small reactors that don’t require the licensing requirements of a nuclear plant. Numerous Utah communities have signed on to the project.
Councilman Rick Davis said, “Not long ago we were scambling to find power.” Regulations resulted in the city joining with others to develop renewable sources. Then, said Davis, there was a time when people said, “not in my backyard.”
Times change. Even though the technology being proposed is very interesting, the cost is too great at this time, Davis said.
Council members Amy Knott-Jespersen and Leif Nelson echoed Davis’s comments. Mayor Mike Kourianos approved declining the contract. He said the public was solidly against the idea.
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