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TerraPower is partly funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. [7] One of TerraPower's primary investors is Bill Gates (via Cascade Investment). Others include Charles River Ventures and Khosla Ventures, which reportedly invested $35 million in 2010. TerraPower is led by chief executive officer Chris Levesque.
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 ...
Gates co-founded TerraPower in 2008 as a way for the private sector to propel advanced nuclear energy forward to provide safe, abundant, carbon-free energy. The company's 345-megawatt reactor could generate up to 500 megawatts at its peak, enough for up to 400,000 homes. TerraPower said its first few reactors will focus on supplying electricity.
Gates has invested more than $1 billion in TerraPower, a privately held start-up that is building small nuclear reactors. ... Billionaires like Bill Gates are pouring money into the industry for a ...
Locals in a remote mining town in Wyoming found themselves in a surreal scene this week when Bill Gates crashed one of their poker games.. The billionaire, 68, joined a group of regular workers at ...
The plant from Bill Gates-founded TerraPower will cost $4 billion, which is four times as much as the company hopes its plants will eventually cost.
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 ...
TerraPower has developed TWR designs for low- to medium- (300 MWe) as well as high-power (~1000 MWe) generation facilities. [15] 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".