Editing Los Alamos County, New Mexico (section)

=== Future energy resources ===
Both Los Alamos County and the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] are trying to reduce their respective [[Greenhouse gas emissions|carbon emissions]]<ref name=":0" /> in order to help mitigate the continually worsening dangers of [[climate change]].<ref>Cissé, G., R. McLeman, H. Adams, P. Aldunce, K. Bowen, D. Campbell-Lendrum, S. Clayton, K.L. Ebi, J. Hess, C. Huang, Q. Liu, G. McGregor, J. Semenza, and M.C. Tirado, 2022: Health, Wellbeing, and the Changing Structure of Communities. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1041–1170, doi:10.1017/9781009325844.009. Retrieved May 5, 2023.</ref> In 2015, Los Alamos County joined with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems in the [[NuScale Power#Carbon Free Power Project, Idaho|Carbon Free Power Project]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Council OKs DPU's Participation In Carbon Free Power Project Study Phase Siting Agreement |url=https://ladailypost.com/council-oks-dpus-participation-in-carbon-free-power-project-study-phase-siting-agreement/ |access-date=May 5, 2023 |website=ladailypost.com}}</ref> The Project planned to use [[NuScale Power]]’s Small Module Reactor design to provide nuclear energy to counties across the [[United States]], but was cancelled in 2023 because of cost increases.<ref name=eenews-20231109>{{cite news |url=https://www.eenews.net/articles/nuscale-cancels-first-of-a-kind-nuclear-project-as-costs-surge/ |title=NuScale cancels first-of-a-kind nuclear project as costs surge |last=Bright |first=Zach |website=E&E News |publisher=POLITICO |date=November 9, 2023 |access-date=November 9, 2023}}</ref> Los Alamos’ history is tied to [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]], which has an environmental impact comparable to that of [[Renewable energy|renewables]] as a source of domestic power.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Leray |first=S. |date=2022 |editor-last=Cifarelli |editor-first=L. |editor2-last=Romanelli |editor2-first=F. |title=Nuclear energy basics |url=https://www.epj-conferences.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226800008 |journal=EPJ Web of Conferences |volume=268 |pages=00008 |doi=10.1051/epjconf/202226800008 |issn=2100-014X|doi-access=free }}</ref> This is true of both large and small module [[Nuclear reactor|reactors]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kim |first=T. |last2=Boing |first2=L. |last3=Halsey |first3=B |last4=Dixon |first4=B. |date=November 18, 2022 |title=Nuclear Waste Attributes of SMRs Scheduled for Near-Term Deployment |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1900154}}</ref>