TerraPower
- TerraPower, which Bill Gates founded, plans to build its first nuclear power plant in the US.
- CEO Chris Levesque told the Financial Times it wants to start work on a site in Wyoming in June.
- TerraPower says its reactor design is cheaper because they're cooled by liquid sodium, not water.
A company cofounded by Bill Gates is about to start building next-generation nuclear power plants in the US.
Chris Levesque, CEO of TerraPower, told the Financial Times that his firm will start building at a site near a coal plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming in June, even if it hasn't received a construction permit from regulators by then.
The company plans to bring the nuclear plant online in 2030, he added.