Here’s a bit more information from Nuclear News…
• Vistra Corp: 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 2,176 MW of nuclear energy and capacity from the operating Perry and Davis-Besse plants in Ohio; plus the purchase of energy from uprates at those two plants and the Beaver Valley plant in Pennsylvania
• TerraPower: funding to support the development of up to eight Natrium sodium fast reactors - two new units capable of generating up to 690 MW of firm power with delivery as early as 2032, plus the rights for energy from up to six other Natrium units capable of producing 2.1 GW and targeted for delivery by 2035.
• Oklo Inc: support for a project to develop a 1.2 GW power campus in Pike County, Ohio, with Meta to prepay for power and provide funding to advance project certainty for Oklo’s Aurora powerhouse deployment.
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TerraPower is Bill Gates’ nuclear power company. They are currently developing the Kemmerer plant in Wyoming, to be located at the site of an existing coal plant run by one of Warren Buffett’s companies.
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Meta previously signed an agreement with Constellation Energy to purchase power from the existing Clinton nuclear power plant in Illinois.
_ Pete