“Nuclear is the only carbon-free energy source that can reliably deliver power day and night, through every season, almost anywhere on earth, that has been proven to work on a large scale.” Over the last year, I have noticed a major shift toward overall acceptance of nuclear. In the p...
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...
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...
Thursday, Jan. 13, 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...
BILL GATES: Exactly. So a coal plant, a natural gas plant, they inherently meant a lot of CO2, greenhouse gas. MARGARET BRENNAN: So you are a big advocate of green energy, obviously, you're putting money to work through this company, TerraPower, but it's still expensive. In this count...
Bill Gates told President-elect Donald Trump last month that energy and climate change provide a "chance for American leadership." The exchange between the two billionaires occurred in a post-election phone call, the details of which were not originally known. In a brief interview yesterday with...
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 ...
The plant featuring a sodium reactor and molten salt energy storage system will perform better, be safer and cost less than traditional nuclear power, Microsoft co-founder and TerraPower founder and chairman Bill Gates said. Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower is working with Rocky Mountain Power,...
issues are such that, unless we rebuild the reactor with a whole new design that’s utterly different in terms of economics and safety, that will be a dead end. And so that’s what I’m trying to do with [nuclear energy company]TerraPower[where Gates serves as chairman of the board]....
“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’...