the world continues to do more to help the poorest people. I do the bulk of this work through theGates Foundation, where my colleagues remain dedicated to improving global health, education, gender equality, and more. While I could write a thousand pages about the incredible work they’re do...
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...
I’ll start with improved safety. Keep in mind that America’s current fleet of nuclear plants has been operating safely for decades—in fact, in terms of lives lost, nuclear power is by far the safest way to produce energy. And this new facility in Kemmerer will be even better. Like o...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
a nuclear power plant south of the town of Kemmerer, Wyo., Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. The future construction built with backing from Bill Gates, The Department of Energy and Rocky Mountain Power will be one of the United State's first small modular reactors. Credit: AP Photo/Natalie ...
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...
Bill Gates’ Message to COP28 We’re not hitting all of the near-term targets for reducing emissions, and that’s definitely concerning. But what I see with innovators all over the world, working on all the differen...