“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...
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 you really don't want the nuclear reactors around the world, made by our adversaries, because it's economic...
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 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 ...
Nuclear energy According to Gates, climate change conversations are advancing as more people experience extreme weather. A lot of the climate change discussions surround clean energy, which increasingly includes nuclear power, said Gates, a longtime backer of nuclear energy. ...
s known as the COP or Conference of Parties. Of course, the challenge is to solve every area of emission. With electricity, scaling up solar and wind power as they get cheaper is a clear solution. Also, companies ...
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 in Search of Nuclear NirvanaEdward A. Friedman