Bill Gates company TerraPower to build reactor at Wyoming coal plant
Source: Associated Press
Bill Gates company to build reactor at Wyoming coal plant
By MEAD GRUVER
June 2, 2021
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A next-generation, small nuclear plant will be built at a soon-to-be retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming in the next several years, business and government officials said Wednesday.
The plant featuring a sodium reactor and molten salt energy storage system will perform better, be safer and cost less than traditional nuclear power, Microsoft co-founder and TerraPower founder and chairman Bill Gates said.
Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower is working with Rocky Mountain Power, an electric utility serving Wyoming and other Western states, to put the Natrium reactor at one of four of the utility’s power plants in Wyoming, with the location to be decided later this year.
“We think Natrium will be a game-changer for the energy industry,” Gates said by video link to a news conference hosted by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon. “Wyoming has been a leader in energy for over a century and we hope our investment in Natrium will help Wyoming to stay in the lead for many decades to come.”
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... for California, Mexico, and various Indian tribes.
In exchange they'd get Colorado River water diverted to the Central Arizona Project the state is not currently entitled to in times of extreme drought. Assuming there's anything left below Hoover Dam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Arizona_Project
Arizona gets 36% of its water from the Colorado River.
Take it or leave it, nuclear power is the only non-fossil fuel energy source capable of supporting the lifestyles many affluent people are now accustomed to.
Since we still insist on using fossil fuels, especially natural gas here in the U.S.A., we'll just have to get accustomed to moving the populations of entire cities as the climate changes for the worse. We can do it with careful planning or not. Without a plan it will be chaos.
If anyone thinks the homeless problem is bad now, just imagine how bad it will be when people from places made uninhabitable by floods, drought, and high temperatures hit the road.