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In 2020, TerraPower won a $2 billion grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help realize the vision of the Natrium plant. The rest of the funds, Levesque said, will be sourced from private ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Wyoming had a total summer capacity of 10,096 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 46,017 GWh in 2022. [ 2 ]
Kemmerer Savings Bank was founded in 1909. Its president Asbury D. Hoskins was manager of the Blyth-Fargo-Hoskins Company, and was elected Wyoming state treasurer in 1919. The J. C. Penney company store was founded in Kemmerer in 1902. [8] TerraPower selected Kemmerer, Wyoming as the site for a 345 MWe reactor using a molten salt energy storage ...
TerraPower notes that the US harbors 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium and that 320 metric tons could power 100 million homes for a year. [17] Reports claim that TWR's high fuel efficiency, combined with the ability to use uranium recovered from river or sea water, means enough fuel is available to generate electricity for 10 billion ...
On January 24, 2019, Gray announced that KCWY-DT would merge its news operation with KGWN-TV by April 9, under the Wyoming News Now banner. Under this arrangement, KCWY's 5 p.m. newscast would be the only Casper-specific newscast, with Jeopardy! replacing the 6 p.m. newscast, and all other newscasts being simulcast from KGWN in Cheyenne and covering both markets.
A small town in Wyoming garnered national attention when Bill Gates’ TerraPower selected Kemmerer as the construction site for its advanced nuclear power plant — the first of its kind.
The mineral extraction industry, including oil and gas, is the main driver of the Wyoming economy, accounting for more than three-fifths of the state's revenues. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Travel and tourism is the second-largest sector in the state, providing $3.3 billion to the state's economy, with $170 million in tax revenues in 2015, along with 32,000 ...
As of the census [2] of 2010, there were 245 people, 94 households, and 72 families living in the town. The population density was 105.2 inhabitants per square mile (40.6/km 2).