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1 day ago · The first reactor using the latter technology, developed by United States company TerraPower, broke ground last month in the US state of Wyoming.
3 days ago · In 2008, Gates founded TerraPower, a nuclear engineering company that is behind the construction of the new reactor, located in Wyoming. The tech billionaire believes this project will significantly alter how power is generated in the United States. Part of what sets this planned $4 billion facility apart is its use of sodium for cooling ...
1 day ago · This laid the groundwork for his role as INL technical lead for fuel salt synthesis in the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE). This public-private partnership in collaboration with Southern Company, TerraPower, INL and others will be the first operational fast spectrum molten salt reactor experiment to achieve criticality in the world.
1 day ago · TerraPower LLC, a startup founded by Gates, broke ground for construction of its first commercial reactor last week in Wyoming, where a coal plant is shutting down, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp. said on CBS’s Face the Nation. TerraPower has explored simpler, cheaper reactors since 2008 and expects to complete the new reactor in 2030.
3 days ago · Bill Gates has explored the development, through his startup TerraPower, of simpler, cheaper reactors since 2008 and expects to complete a new reactor in 2030 stating just last week that, “I put in over a billion, and I’ll put in billions more.” Gates is banking on cost coming down with scale so that nuclear can even compete with coal.
3 days ago · Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief ...
2 days ago · The traveling wave reactor proposed by TerraPower is aimed to immediately "burn" the fuel that it breeds without requiring its removal from the reactor core and its further reprocessing. [52] The design of some SMR reactors is based on the thorium fuel cycle , which is considered by their promotors as a way to reduce the long-term waste radiotoxicity compared to the uranium cycle. [53]
