Apparently Bill Gates and Warren Buffet like mini-reactors too.
TerraPower
TerraPower is an American nuclear reactor design and development engineering company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. TerraPower is developing a class of nuclear fast reactors termed traveling wave reactors. TWR places a small core of enriched fuel in the center of a much larger mass of non-fissile material, in this case depleted uranium. Neutrons from fission in the core "breeds" new fissile material in the surrounding mass, producing Plutonium-239.
Bill Gates introduces himself to Kemmerer, Wyoming
Bill Gates speaks to local residents and officials during a meeting Friday at a hotel in Kemmerer. Gates' nuclear development company is planning to build a next-generation reactor at the site of a coal-fired power plant adjacent to the town. This was the Microsoft founder's first visit to the community.
ASHTON J. HACKE, for the Star-Tribune
Nicole Pollack
KEMMERER — Bill Gates on Friday made his first visit to Kemmerer, the southwestern Wyoming town where his nuclear development company, TerraPower, plans to build its inaugural next-generation reactor.
After touring the planned site and the adjacent coal-fired Naughton Power Plant, and sitting down with community leaders at the new Fossil Fuel Coffee Co., Gates and several TerraPower executives spoke to a packed room of residents and state officials at a Best Western about their vision for the Natrium project.
“This is a pioneering move that will be a big part of how we keep electricity reliable and keep the United States at the forefront of providing energy technology to the entire world,” said Gates, who has long been a vocal proponent of modernizing the country’s nuclear fleet.