CEDAR CITY, Utah — Rocky Mountain Power said things are moving forward with an experiment in small-scale nuclear power at its retired coal plant in Kemmerer, Wyo.

"Terrapower is making a lot of progress. They’ve put a lot of steel in the ground, they’re moving forward with their construction. They’ve got their construction permit," Dick Garlish, the president of Rocky Mountain Power, told FOX 13 News while attending Governor Spencer Cox's "One Utah Summit" in Cedar City.

The plant is being converted into a small-scale nuclear facility to generate electricity as part of Rocky Mountain Power's grid.

"What it means for consumers is diversification, generation of resources, good dispatchable baseload energy, clean energy in an affordable way through our power purchase arrangement," Garlish

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