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On November 6, 2009, TerraPower executives and Bill Gates visited Toshiba's Yokohama and Keihin Factories in Japan, and concluded a non-disclosure agreement with them on December 1. [18] [19] [20] Toshiba had developed an ultracompact reactor, the 4S, that could operate for 30 years without fuel handling and generated 10 megawatts.
Bill Gates, the founder of TerraPower, thinks existing energy infrastructure in West Virginia could be a good fit for his Natrium nuclear reactor.
Pool type sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) A sodium-cooled fast reactor is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium.. The initials SFR in particular refer to two Generation IV reactor proposals, one based on existing liquid metal cooled reactor (LMFR) technology using mixed oxide fuel (MOX), and one based on the metal-fueled integral fast reactor.
He offered information about the company’s next-generation nuclear power plant, called Natrium, which is slated to become operational in 2030. Nearly 20% of American energy is powered from ...
Bill Gates featured TerraPower in his 2010 TED talk. [16] In 2010 a group from TerraPower applied for patent EP 2324480 A1 following WO2010019199A1 "Heat pipe nuclear fission deflagration wave reactor cooling". The application was deemed withdrawn in 2014. [17]
An advanced nuclear power venture founded by billionaire Bill Gates said on Tuesday it has chosen a town in Wyoming as the site to build a $4 billion demonstration plant that will get half its ...
In 2021 Terrapower instead announced that its first Natrium reactor would be built in Wyoming. [24] In 2023 X-energy announced continued development of up to 12 reactors at the Hanford site. [25] In October 2024 Amazon has signed an agreement to pay for the initial feasibility phase to further develop the X-energy modular reactors near this site.
A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power project near a coal-fired power plant that will soon close, officials ...