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Move Over, Smelter! Stitt’s Taking Things Nuclear!

9:08 AM EDT on July 31, 2026

I hope you’re stocked up on iodine tablets!

After spending the past few years wooing aluminum smelters, nickel refineries and other weird projects that sound like the origin story of a future Superfund site, Stitt announced this week that Oklahoma is one of five finalists to host something called a Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus. 

It’s apparently a fancy way of saying nuclear waste dump.