Nuclear Power in Coal country

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Bill Gates is building a Nuclear power plant in Wyoming.

This subject has been discussed on the Nuclear Power board since March 2024. Go there for more details on the project.

Bill Gates' TerraPower to start building first US SMR Nuclear power plant in June

Bill Gates helped found TerraPower in 2006, and is its Chairman. According to CEO Chris Levesque, its Natrium-branded reactors cost about half of today’s standard water-cooled reactors, partly because it uses molten sodium as a coolant, enabling lower operating pressures and hence fewer redundant safety systems using simpler materials. ‘The company has secured pledges from the US government to provide up to $2bn to complete work at TerraPower’s first plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and it will app…