Wyoming’s Emerging Nuclear Hubs Don't Qualify For ‘Nuclear Communities’ Tax Break

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes a provision offering a 10% bonus tax credit to urban areas with significant nuclear-related employment.

Resources for the Future, a Washington D.C.-based research institution, reports that the fine print effectively excludes small cities like Gillette and Kemmerer, Wyoming, from qualifying as “nuclear energy communities,” despite both actively courting significant nuclear industry development.

"Any place that is outside of a metropolitan statistical area will not be eligible for this 10% bonus tax credit, and that includes most of Wyoming," said Daniel Raimi, a fellow at Resources for the Future — an independent non-profit research institution in Washington D.C.

"That means that developers looking to build new advanced nuclear reactors or other ki