Kanawha County Delegate Kayla Young joins MetroNews Talkline to discuss what could be next for nuclear energy in West Virginia after the state joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses initiative.

Young, a member of the House Energy Committee who has worked extensively on nuclear issues, explains what the federal initiative could mean for West Virginia — including fuel fabrication and enrichment, reprocessing used nuclear fuel, waste disposition, advanced reactors and potential small modular reactor development.

Other topics include the cost of nuclear development, protecting ratepayers from those costs, the future of small modular reactors, nuclear waste, competition with other states and the need to educate communities about modern nuclear technology.