Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape
Energy Frontier highlights the University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources' role in advancing energy-driven economic development in Wyoming. Content covers energy innovation, Wyoming's energy sector and leadership.
The show is hosted by Dr. Holly Krutka, Executive Director of the School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming.
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Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape
Episode 67: Critical Minerals, Collaboration & Scale: An INL Perspective for Wyoming’s Energy Frontier
In this episode of Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape, we sit down with Anthony Nickens, Division Director of Materials & Manufacturing at Idaho National Laboratory. We explore how INL is advancing critical minerals research, bridging the gap between lab and industry, and enabling resilient supply chains for energy and minerals security. Anthony shares lessons from national lab–university–industry collaborations, the technological frontiers in mineral separations and processing, and how Wyoming might play a pivotal role in the nation’s mineral future. Along the way, we talk workforce development, pilot scale challenges, policy needs, and what it takes to turn scientific promise into impact on the ground.