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Jun 13, 2024 · Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation firm TerraPower has broken ground on the non-nuclear portion of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345-MW Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) power plant. The groundbreaking...
Jun 11, 2024 · The 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system - which can boost the system's output to 500 MW of power when needed, allowing it to integrate seamlessly with renewable resources - is being built near a retiring coal-fired plant.
Jun 13, 2024 · Next-gen nuclear startup TerraPower ceremonially broke ground Monday on its planned Natrium reactor demonstration project in Wyoming. The milestone is important as it marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design to construction, although it’s five years away from completion.
Jun 17, 2024 · TerraPower, of which Bill Gates is chairman, has begun the construction of a modern nuclear power plant, the Natrium reactor and energy storage system, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Jun 11, 2024 · TerraPower will first build the non-nuclear parts of the plant while the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews TerraPower’s construction permit application, which it accepted last month.
Jun 12, 2024 · Natrium is a TerraPower and GE-Hitachi technology and is one of two competitively-selected Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) projects supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The construction project is expected to cost up to $4bn, half funded by the ARDP.
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Jun 10, 2024 · The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted TerraPower’s construction permit application for review last month. It’s a step that sounds bureaucratic but is, in fact, a huge deal and the first time something like this has happened with a commercial non- light water reactor in more than 40 years.
