Despite growing support for nuclear energy nationally and in Wyoming, there are too many concerns to entertain the possibility of opening the state to the country’s growing stockpile of spent nuclear fuel waste, some lawmakers say.
 touted by its backers as a tool to initiate a larger conversation, died Wednesday in the House Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee.
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