A rural Utah county of less than 10,000 people has spent a half million dollars or more to keep a nuclear research lab running over the past 3 years.
, an American Fork-based company connected to Memmott that is testing molten salts at the center.
. Thorium has been studied as a potential fuel for decades, but there are no commercial-scale thorium reactors in this country. Thorium reactors use molten salts to produce energy, but Terra Power would use salts to store energy. Up to this point, Rocky Mountain has not participated in the research center.
Even the special service district’s “certificate of creation” describes purposes that don’t exactly match what is happening at the center.
The center has contracted with Fry to bring in more work, and he has been running tests on different fuels for energy companies. That has brought in a few hundred thousand dollars. “We’ve had a little profit on some that we’ve been able to put back into equipment.” “We’re no longer interested in that,” said Justen Smith, Director of Agriculture and Natural Resources at USU Extension. “We feel it’s better served between Emery County and the state Office of Energy Development.”
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