Less than a week after city leaders announced they would study the possibility of building a small modular nuclear reactor at Denver International Airport, those plans have been delayed following pushback from a member of Denver City Council.

Councilmember Stacie Gilmore represents District 11, which includes the airport. Gilmore said she had not been consulted before Mayor Mike Johnston and airport leadership announced the plans for a feasibility study of nuclear power.

“There had been no conversation with myself, the council office, none of the [registered neighborhood organizations], no one in the community about even the idea of a feasibility study, and nothing said about the natural resources that might be affected by that feasibility study,” Gilmore said at the beginning of Monday’

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