Bill Gates popped up in the news again recently, but it wasn’t because of his charitable activities or his previous work in the computer industry. Back in 2006, Gates founded a company named TerraPower that began working on designing a new generation of nuclear reactors. Known as traveling wave reactors, they use liquid sodium as a coolant instead of water. He arrived in Wyoming to break ground on a new reactor site after his construction permit was approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission a few months ago. This is one of five plants that Gates plans to construct across the West and it will replace a commercial coal-fired plant that is being decommissioned in two years. (Associated Press)
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.
