The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

With one nuclear power plant already under construction, Wyoming will soon be home to high-level nuclear waste storage unless ...

This hopefully paves the way to a more sustainable future.

Most new nuclear fission reactors being built today are of the light water reactor (LWR) type, which use water for neutron moderation into thermal neutrons as well as neutron capture. While ...

June 10, 2024 TerraPower, celebrated the start of construction on the Natrium reactor demonstration project. This marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction in the ...

A fuel fabrication facility that will create reliable fuel for TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) 345-MWe Natrium pool-type sodium fast reactor (SFR) demonstration in Wyoming and ...

Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation firm TerraPower has broken ground on the non-nuclear portion of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345-MW Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) power plant. The groundbreaking on ...

The NRC announced today the Commissioners voted to issue the first ever construction permit for an advanced, commercial-scale nuclear power plant. TerraPower's president and CEO, Chris Levesque, ...

TerraPower has announced three more supplier contracts as part of the fifth round of procurement awards for the Natrium project in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in the USA. A rendering of a Natrium plant (Image: ...

Plans to construct a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in the US state of Wyoming were announced yesterday by TerraPower, PacifiCorp and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon. The ...