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...
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...
$4B Advanced Nuclear Power Plant Set for Former Wyo. Coal Site Mary B. Powers Debra K. Rubin November 20, 2021 One Comment Bechtel will lead EPC work on a 345-MW reactor at Kemmerer site for Bill Gates-founded firm TerraPower; Southern Co. also announces demonstration project with the deve...
X-Energy is one of many companies building next-generation power plants that promise to realize Eisenhower's promise of atomic energy that's cheap, safe and widespread. Another is the Bill Gates-backed TerraPower, which is developing a reactor that aims to solve the cost and waste problems by...
conventional nuclear power plants is slow and expensive. That’s one reason the industry is staking its future on a new generation of smaller advanced reactors. Still in development, these offer the promise of carbon-free energy and could back up the ebbs and flows of renewable power in clean...
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Nuclear Energy for the Nation’s Carbon-Free Power The surge in AI applications is significantly increasing electricity demand for data centers, presenting a lucrative opportunity for developers of small nuclear reactors (SMRs) and advanced battery technologies. ...
and there are also other nuclear fusion technologies in the works. Bill Gates has famously invested in Terrapower, a nuclear energy company working on ways to reuse depleted uranium from old stockpiles, and stored in molten salt reactors, to make nuclear power in a way that i...
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. —Bill Vaughan All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. —Ronald Reagan ...
The new push for atomic energy in the Pacific Northwest isn’t just coming from the well-funded nuclear industry, their boosters at the Department of Energy, or billionaires like Bill Gates. It’s alsoechoingin the mainstream environmental movement among those who increasingly view the technology ...