TerraPower uses a fission reactor, which is what most people think of when they picture a nuclear power plant. It creates power by splitting atoms apart. But scientists are also working on a completely new type of reactor that pushes atoms together to generate energy. This process is called f...
Today I’m in the town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, to celebrate the latest step in a project that’s been more than 15 years in the making: designing and building a next-generation nuclear power plant. I’m thrilled to be here after all this time—because I’m convinced that the facility wi...
BILL GATES: All of the clean sources will have to do a great job of getting their costs down. And you've got to get permits, you've got to get transmission permission. The nuclear plant we're building in Wyoming has an advantage that there's a coal plant right there that's been sh...
Nuclear power is already a source of carbon-free electricity, producing about 10 percent of the world’s power. It would also serve as a very reliable source of clean energy to complement renewables. But high costs and safety concerns have slowed the growth of nuclear power. With innovations ...
Bill Gates shares some of the many ready-to-deploy innovations on display at BE’s 2024 summit—proof that the Clean Industrial Revolution is here.
Bill Gates shares thoughts on the state of the world’s progress in the effort to reach net-zero carbon emissions and avoid a climate disaster.
2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. While the power plant will be closed in 2025, Bill Gates' company TerraPower announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon. Credit: AP Photo/Na...
Another Bill Gates Endeavor: Advanced Nuclear Reactors Separate from Breakthrough Energy, Gates also supports an effort to build the world’s most advanced nuclear plant. TerraPower, a company Gates founded in 2008, recently broke ground on its Natrium project in Wyoming and filed a construction pe...
Bill Gates and his energy company, TerraPower, are planning their first cutting-edge nuclear power plant. Jul 23, 2023 Bill Gates on next-generation nuclear power technology In Wyoming, where coal and natural gas power its electric generation plants, Bill Gates and his energy company TerraPow...
A lot of the climate change discussions surround clean energy, which increasingly includes nuclear power, said Gates, a longtime backer of nuclear energy. “In 2024 and beyond, I predict we will see lots of new innovations coming into the marketplace — even in very complicated areas like ...