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Founded by Bill Gates in 2008, TerraPower sees this project in Lincoln County as an investment in demonstrating the innovation in the nuclear power industry, growing domestic energy production and ...
In June 2021, TerraPower and PacifiCorp (a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy) announced plans to build a joint Natrium reactor. [29] Four cities in Wyoming affected by closure of fossil-fuel power plants were under consideration for the demonstration reactor: Gillette, Kemmerer, Glenrock and Rock Springs, Wyoming. [30]
Wyoming has no utility-scale nuclear facilities. In June 2021, Terrapower and Pacificorp announced their intention to advance a novel reactor demonstration project at the site of a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. [4] On 16 November 2021, Pacificorp announced the selection of the Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming for the Natrium ...
Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming site for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will “revolutionize” how power is generated. Gates was in the tiny community of Kemmerer Monday to break ground on the project. The co-founder of Microsoft is chairman of TerraPower.
Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower will build its Natrium plant in Kemmerer, a southwestern Wyoming city of 2,600 where the coal-fired Naughton power plant operated by PacifiCorp subsidiary ...
CHEYENNE — Of the 54 operational nuclear power plants in the United States, only three have become operational since 1997. In June, a new plant broke ground near Kemmerer with the hope of ...
In 2021, TerraPower announced it would open a sodium-cooled nuclear power plant in Kemmerer in 2028, at an estimated cost of $4 billion. [32] The company plans to employ workers from Naughton Power Plant, [33] [34] and started clearing the site in 2024 to be ready for construction if/when a license is obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has also founded and currently chairs TerraPower, a company working to develop an advanced nuclear plant at a site in Wyoming. Nuclear is expensive and some ...