“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...
BILL GATES: Yes, I'm quite confident. I mean, I'm- you know, I meet with lots of Republicans, I meet with lots of Democrats. I'd say that the- their support for nuclear power is very impressive in both parties. The reasons they support nuclear power may not be identical. The Repu...
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.
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 ...
59、he sixty years, and then its done.ca: its a nuclear power plant that is its own waste disposal solution.bg: yeah. well, what happens with the waste,you can let it sit there - theres a lot less waste under this approach -then you can actually take that,and put it into another...
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...
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,...
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...