Petition updateStop the Proposed Code Changes to Allow Nuclear Reactors in Eagle Mountain, UtahCity Council to Vote 12-2-2025 Whether to Annex Land for Possible Nuclear Reactors
Joy RasmussenEagle Mountain, UT, United States
Dec 1, 2025

Please come and comment, or email your comments, to the city council for the meeting Tuesday, December 2, 2025! The public hearing part of the meeting starts at 7 p.m., at 1650 Stagecoach Run, Eagle Mountain, UT, and at some point after that, there will be a public hearing about item 15A, which includes in part the idea of adding Area 2 to their annex plan, for the possible building of nuclear reactors. It abuts the area where Meta's data center is, and is still very close to John Hancock Charter School, the homes in the Firefly subdivision, and residential areas. Unfortunately, the mayor of Fairfield, who also may want to annex this area, has said she is open to nuclear reactors in that same area. She did express frustration at Eagle Mountain's Planning Commission meeting last week, because she wants that area possibly for her town. She said the trucks and equipment already going through Fairfield for Eagle Mountain's industrial activities takes up the entire road, and is damaging their roads. The people of Fairfield AND Eagle Mountain need to let their leaders know we do NOT want this right by our homes. Rather, any nuclear reactors and their waste need to be far from populations for safety. So we the people need to show our opposition to this purpose for future annexation. Not only will taxpayers fund this, and the cleanup, but they will also bear the health risks of having them so close, without any of the benefits, since these reactors are being planned to fuel data centers to power AI. Sign up here to comment, or email the city recorder, and the mayor and council members, your comments if you can't make it to the meeting, or don't live close enough. Even if you aren't a citizen of these areas! From Sarah of Utah's Uranium Watch: 

"One of the upsetting things about the NRC is the possible reduction in the size of the emergency planning zone for small modular and other new reactor designs. The can set the emergency planning zone as the edge of the site itself. Currently, for conventional reactors, the evacuation zone would be 10 miles, and another impact zone of 50 miles. Who pays for the emergency planning? Will FEMA be involved? An issue that Wyoming citizens were concerned about was the fact that irridiated fuel would be stored on-site in definitely.  So any new reactor site would also be a spent fuel storage site."

These are not what we need for our communities! 

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