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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]
In June 2021, Terrapower and Pacificorp announced their intention to advance a novel reactor demonstration project at the site of a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. [4] On 16 November 2021, Pacificorp announced the selection of the Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming for the Natrium Demonstration Project. [5]
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, 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 ...
In 2021, TerraPower announced it would open a sodium-cooled nuclear power plant in Kemmerer in 2028, at an estimated cost of $4 billion. [32] The company plans to employ workers from Naughton Power Plant, [33] [34] and started clearing the site in 2024 to be ready for construction if/when a license is obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory ...
Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming site for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will “revolutionize” how power is generated. Gates was in the tiny community of Kemmerer Monday to break ground on the project. The co-founder of Microsoft is chairman of TerraPower.
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 ...
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]