WYPUBLIC MONEY LEDGER
Working master
Cutoff: September 21, 2026
Wyoming investigation, 2006–2026

Follow the public money behind nuclear development.

An evidence-labeled ledger of awards, authorizations, tax expenditures, infrastructure exposure, cleanup obligations, regulation, research, and workforce spending connected to Wyoming.

FIRST DEEP-RESEARCH PASS
$2.110BIdentifiable public authorizations or awards
Up to $2BFederal Natrium cost-share ceiling
$100MWyoming BWXT TRISO award
$9,999,802Wyoming BANR assessment share
This is not a cash-spent total. It combines differently classified commitments and excludes unresolved tax, infrastructure, regulatory, cleanup, university, and regional amounts.

Core Project Ledger

Filter the confirmed and developing record. Every figure retains its evidence status so an authorization ceiling cannot be mistaken for an outlay.

2020–2026

TerraPower Natrium Demonstration

Authorized ceiling
Public source
U.S. DOE
Amount
Up to $2B

Federal 50/50 cost share for design, licensing, fuel work, the Kemmerer demonstration plant and related facilities. The ceiling is not cash spent, and not all work occurs in Wyoming.

2024 appropriation, 2025 award

BWXT TRISO Fuel Facility

Awarded
Public source
Wyoming LPEMF
Amount
$100M

State award for a proposed Gillette fuel-fabrication plant, requiring at least a 1:1 match. Payment history, milestones, clawbacks, and the executed agreement remain to be obtained.

2023–2025

BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor Assessment

Awarded
Public source
Wyoming EMF
Amount
$9,999,802

Wyoming share for conceptual design, licensing strategy, a fleet model, supply-chain work, and deployment assessment. The broader program is reported near $20 million.

2024 onward

Idaho and Wyoming Nuclear Tech Hub

Shared regional award
Public source
U.S. EDA
Amount
$40M regional

Supports a regional nuclear supply chain, commercialization, and workforce. Only documented Wyoming allocations should be booked to Wyoming.

2023

Nuclear Strategic Framework and Roadmap

Unverified amount
Public source
Wyoming WEA
Amount
Pending

State-funded planning activity. Procurement records, contracts, amendments, invoices, and the funding account are needed before assigning a value.

2021–2026

Natrium Siting and Coordination

Public administrative cost
Public source
State and local
Amount
Pending

Industrial siting, emergency planning, road and utility review, planning, legal work, and staff time. Agency budgets alone are not proof of project subsidy.

2019–2026

Wyoming Agreement State Regulation

Regulatory program
Public source
DEQ and NRC
Amount
Pending

Uranium-material licensing and oversight. Federal grants, state general funds, and license-fee revenue must be separated. Industry-paid fees are not taxpayer subsidies.

No project records match those filters.

Words That Control the Count

A ledger is only credible when it distinguishes what government may spend, what it promised, and what actually left the treasury.

AwardedA recipient was publicly selected or approved.
Authorized ceilingA maximum available, not necessarily obligated or spent.
AppropriatedLawmakers made funds available.
ObligatedGovernment entered a binding commitment.
OutlayCash was actually disbursed.
Tax expenditureRevenue government chose not to collect.
Proposed or failedNever included in enacted-support totals.
Shared regional awardOnly Wyoming's documented share counts here.

Costs Beyond New Projects

Development subsidies, foregone revenue, and historic cleanup serve different purposes. They should be investigated together, but never collapsed into one misleading number.

Tax and infrastructure exposure

  • Uranium severance-tax exemptions and reduced rates
  • Manufacturing sales and use-tax exemptions
  • Property-tax abatements, PILOTs, and valuation agreements
  • Industrial development bonds and public conduit financing
  • Federal production, investment, or manufacturing credits

Cleanup and long-term obligations

  • Riverton former uranium mill groundwater work
  • Split Rock and former mill surveillance
  • Abandoned uranium mines on federal land
  • Wyoming AML inventories, closures, and reclamation
  • ISR restoration, monitoring, and financial assurance

Ready-to-Send Records Requests

These scopes target the agreements and payment records needed to convert broad announcements into an auditable cash-flow ledger.

Wyoming Energy Authority

All executed agreements, amendments, payment requests, invoices, monitoring reports, milestone certifications, disbursements, clawbacks, and correspondence concerning BWXT TRISO, BANR, and the nuclear roadmap.

Gillette and Campbell County

Public expenditures, land, infrastructure, utilities, tax treatment, emergency services, consultant work, and staff costs tied to BWXT or a proposed nuclear-fuel facility.

Kemmerer and Lincoln County

Public costs and commitments associated with TerraPower, Natrium, or Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 since 2021.

Wyoming Department of Revenue

Annual uranium production receiving tax relief, the counterfactual tax, foregone revenue, and state and local distribution effects from 2006 through 2026.

Source Register

Primary and authoritative records should control. Secondary reporting is used as a lead or corroboration.

Bottom line: The defensible story is larger than one project or level of government. The next phase is to convert major authorizations into an auditable year-by-year ledger of appropriations, obligations, and actual payments.