Bill Gates To Put Billions Into Nuclear

The US public’s relationship with nuclear power was crippled by the meltdown of one reactor at Three Mile Island in 1979. After that, very few Americans were willing to have a reactor anywhere within hundreds of miles of their homes. Chornobyl did not help that. One can only imagine if the US had a third of its electricity from reactors, as in several European countries.

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Many of the reactors are called Small modular reactors (SMRs). As for the danger, “In comparison to existing reactors, proposed SMR designs are generally simpler, and the safety concept for SMRs often relies more on passive systems and inherent safety characteristics of the reactor, such as low power and operating pressure,” the IAEA reports.

Gates Put In Billions

Nuclear power recently gained a champion among the wealthiest and best-known people in the world–Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft. TerraPower LLC, which Gates started, broke ground for its first commercial reactor last week in Wyoming. Gates commented, “I put in over a billion, and I’ll put in billions more.”

Gates sees nuclear power as a gateway out of America’s reliance on fossil fuels, which have barely been affected by solar and wind energy use. He is among the loudest voices saying we have little time to slow global warming. He has put his money where his mouth is.

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