I’m optimistic about the approach created byTerraPower, a company I founded in 2008. Earlier this year, I visited the future home of the first TerraPower plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. When this plant opens—potentially in 2030—it will be the most advanced nuclear facility in the world, and ...
TerraPower, a company founded by Bill Gates, says it plans to start building the first of a new generation of nuclear power plants in the US in June, joining a race with Russian and Chinese rivals to develop and export lower-cost reactors. Chris Levesque, TerraPower’s chief executive, told...
we need nuclear power if we’re going to meet the world’s growing need for energy while also eliminating carbon emissions. None of the other clean sources are as reliable, and none of the other reliable sources are as clean.
TerraPower and Centrus developing more powerful reactor fuelAdvanced reactor to use HALEU fuel that's not yet availableTerraPower LLC, an advanced nuclear company backed by billionaire Bill Gates, is working with CentrusEnergy Corp. to develop a new type of fuel it will need to power its ...
BILL GATES: Yes, nuclear really is a special-- MARGARET BRENNAN: It's its own category of green energy? BILL GATES: Because- because- not because it's green, there are people who don't value that part of it all, I wish they would. They value it because of the US leadership. And...
Microsoft(MSFT) founderBill GatesandTerraPower, the start-up company he's backing, have a simple solution to our energy woes: Safe, small-scale nuclear reactors that cut the cost of power, burn existing nuclear waste as fuel and avoid carbon dioxide and other nasty emissions. Funny thing ...
There are several nuclear technologies that should be explored. One of them, a company I helped start calledTerraPower, uses an approach called a traveling wave reactor that is safe, prevents proliferation, and creates very little waste. To make these innovations a reality, we need governments—...
BILL GATES:Well, certainly, humans are good at worrying, and we’ve given them plenty to worry about. JESSIE WOOLLEY-WILSON:Climate change. BILL GATES:Yeah, we’ve got climate change. We’ve got polarization, populism. We’ve got a war that somewhat involves countries with nuclear weapons....
“In 2024 and beyond, I predict we will see lots of new innovations coming into the marketplace — even in very complicated areas like nuclear,” Gates wrote. Advertising Skip Ad Skip Ad Skip Ad That is good news for TerraPower,the nuclear energy company he founded in 2008. TerraPower’...
A next-generation, small nuclear plant will be built at a soon-to-be retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming in the next several years, business and government officials said Wednesday.