CASPER — The nuclear energy company that previously eyed Bar Nunn as its a manufacturing site for its microreactor technology announced Monday afternoon that it’s pulling out of Wyoming altogether.

The company is instead going to Tennessee.

The move comes roughly a month after local organizations withdrew their application for a $25 million grant to develop the proposed site into a professional complex.

“We choose Oak Ridge, Tennessee, because of their strong workforce, the community’s rich nuclear heritage and the public’s second-to-none nuclear IQ,” Tori Shivanandan, Radiant’s chief operating officer, said in a news release. “Just as importantly, the state’s business-friendly environment gave us the immediate regulatory certainty we needed to move fast and be up and running to meet gr

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