Louisiana among five states chosen to continue negotiations over nuclear energy push by federal governmentBATON ROUGE - Louisiana could soon be part of the federal government's push to invest in atomic energy. The U.S. Department of Energy selected five states - Louisiana, Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah and Tennessee to explore the development of nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses. "The federal government said they wanted to try and reinvigorate the entire supply chain for nuclear power. The DOE says that these campuses are a way to modernize the nation's full nuclear fuel cycle by having functions such as "fuel fabrication, enrichment, reprocessing used nuclear fuel, and disposition of waste" all in the same place. "Nuclear energy is always a complicated subject, primarily because of the costs to ratepayers."