BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — Plans have been announced to build a nuclear power "ecosystem" that would do everything from job training to ultimately a fully-functioning plant providing energy to the state.

"Today marks the launch of a complete civil nuclear energy ecosystem from start to finish," Governor Spencer Cox said in remarks at an event in Brigham City on Monday. "The first project of its kind."

The joint project by Hi Tech Solutions and Holtec International involves a campus near Brigham City where components for small modular reactors would be made. Dr. Rick Springman of Holtec International told FOX 13 News it would "produce some of the components that are going to go into that plant in Utah and would serve as a key to export regionally and globally."

Initially, the companies have sa

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