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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 ...
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]
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 ]
TerraPower selected Kemmerer, Wyoming as the site for a 345 MWe reactor using a molten salt energy storage system. The reactor can temporarily boost output to 500 MWe, enabling the plant to integrate with renewable resources. [9] In June 2024 the site broke ground, beginning preparation for the as-yet unapproved reactor. [10]
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 ...
In June, a new plant broke ground near Kemmerer with the hope of revitalizing the industry through new innovations. On Friday, Chris Levesque, the president and CEO of TerraPower, the company ...
Others are in planning or under construction. For example, in 2022, in the US, TerraPower (using its Traveling Wave technology [2]) is planning to build its own reactors along with molten salt energy storage [2] in partnership with GEHitachi's PRISM integral fast reactor design, under the Natrium [3] appellation in Kemmerer, Wyoming. [4] [5]
BELLEVUE, Wash. — TerraPower, the nuclear energy venture that’s backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has gotten a boost on two fronts in its campaign to pioneer a new generation of safer ...