Bill Gates Picks Wyoming Town to Set Up
Experimental Nuclear Reactor
The Epoch Times,
by
Naveen Athrappully
Original Article
Posted By: harleynyc,
11/18/2021 3:46:54 PM
TerraPower, a nuclear power venture founded by Bill Gates, announced Tuesday that it has picked a coal-mining town in Wyoming as the site for building a $4 billion demonstration nuclear plant with partial funding from the U.S. government.
TerraPower, along with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, has picked Kemmerer, a remote western Wyoming town for building the Natrium plant “following an extensive evaluation process and meetings with community members and leaders,” according to a statement on the company’s website. Factors for choosing Kemmerer included physical characteristics, infrastructure, and the ability of the site to obtain a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TXknitter 11/18/2021 3:48:09 PM (No. 981768)
He picked red, full of cowboy patriots Wyoming for this too. Gates is an evil man.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 11/18/2021 3:53:23 PM (No. 981773)
I made a gas stop at the airport at Kemmerer one trip out west. Kinda like a carrier landing and takeoff....basically on a mesa, cliff at each end of the runway.
Good luck, Kemmerer, hope it works out for you, but I don't trust Gates as far as I can toss a billion dollars in gold.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
linkay6 11/18/2021 4:03:06 PM (No. 981784)
He needs to go back to windows. Leave humans alone.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sandbar 11/18/2021 4:03:33 PM (No. 981785)
The left is coming around to nuke power. They are finally coming to grips with the realization that wind and solar have no chance of fueling a nation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 11/18/2021 4:07:46 PM (No. 981789)
At least somebody is doing something that will actually make a lot of power 24/7 with out smoke and CO2.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 11/18/2021 4:10:46 PM (No. 981790)
Will he name it after Liz Cheney?
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Agreed. I have no problem with this. Say what you want about Gates (and I agree that he sometimes he needs to be put back in his box) but MS Office is an integral reason for the exploive growth in the stock market that started ~30 years ago. If he can jumpstart the nuclear industry in a similar manner, have at it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Laotzu 11/18/2021 4:18:19 PM (No. 981794)
Have always enjoyed driving though the town and seeing the first J.C. Penny store in the country, which still stands.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cold porridge 11/18/2021 4:20:31 PM (No. 981798)
Yeah, that's all WY needs. Large earthquakes near Yellowstone or an eruption to go along with a damaged nuclear plant. East Idaho already has one.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 11/18/2021 4:47:23 PM (No. 981816)
Liquid sodium cooled reactor using enriched uranium. Sodium is a very reactive metal, and in liquid form, if it leaks is very reactive, burning strongly in presence of water and air. Leaks will be "exciting". And many metals, for example, iron, chromium, nickel, and others dissolve into liquid sodium, making piping and heat exchangers very tricky to make last very long, and ultra expensive.
USS Seawolf was a nuclear powered sub which used a sodium cooled reactor. The sodium destroyed the high temperature heat exchangers, requiring them to be bypassed, lowering output by 20%, and after a year, the reactor was removed and a pressurized water reactor replaced it. All subsequent USN reactors have been PWR types because sodium cooling is very problematic, water very straightforward and reliable as a coolant. That experiment was done in the late 50s.
Good luck, but I remain skeptical that a VERY chemically reactive liquid metal like sodium can be a safe and sane coolant in a nuclear reactor. I certainly wouldn't invest any of my money in it.
But, Gate can afford to flush a bunch of cash, and besides.....us poor taxpayers are paying half of the cost. Free money! Free money! As long as it isn't coal or petro based....tons of government Free Money!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smaricic 11/18/2021 5:12:39 PM (No. 981826)
I would love to see this succeed. I don't know anything about chemistry, but maybe they could mix the sodium with something to make it less volatile. They should try apple cider vinegar -- that seems to work for everything else.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/18/2021 5:36:38 PM (No. 981847)
Given that we are talking about Gates, my question is - what's the catch?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bamboozle 11/18/2021 5:53:24 PM (No. 981854)
Giving new meaning to blue screen of death?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
KatieJo 11/18/2021 5:56:39 PM (No. 981856)
Gosh, what if I want to set up a nuclear reactor? What credentials does Gates have? He's a computer genius, a vaccine/disease expert, and now nuclear reactors. Is there anything the man can't do?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jacksin5 11/18/2021 6:09:39 PM (No. 981864)
Bill Gates is not a stupid man. After backing the Radical Left to shut down oil, gas. and coal production, he realizes there would never be enough electricity to meet America's needs.
So in true lefty fashion, Gates will ride to the rescue with Nuclear Power. and cash in big time.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 11/18/2021 6:24:30 PM (No. 981879)
#14. Gates is just writing half the checks....you and I are writing the other half of them. Gates knows zip about nuclear reactors, just what the guys he hires tell him.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
IowaDad 11/18/2021 6:27:51 PM (No. 981882)
What a very silly bunch of comments! Nuclear power has killed less than 100 people over 70 years world wide. Coal mining deaths alone account for about 15,000 deaths per year world wide.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/18/2021 6:29:09 PM (No. 981884)
I'd bet you and I are writing most of the checks not just half of them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
daisey 11/18/2021 6:45:19 PM (No. 981891)
I had no idea Bill Gates was a physicist
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Owney 11/18/2021 7:12:01 PM (No. 981910)
FTA:" Gates had initially chosen Beijing to set up the experimental reactor through a partnership with state-owned China National Nuclear Corp., but the administration of Donald Trump restricted nuclear deals with China, forcing TerraPower to pick a new partner and site."
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/18/2021 7:12:08 PM (No. 981911)
stand by for a United States version of Chernobyl
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Mike22 11/18/2021 7:22:51 PM (No. 981918)
Ever see the lovely blue glow the surrounds a live reactor core? I have. It is truly beautiful.
Gates is not building the reactor - GE and Hitachi are. They both really like money. They really want to succeed. They employ some really fine engineers. They know any slip will be blasted around the globe in minutes and they will lose a lucrative opportunity. Yes, liquid sodium is scary stuff but the technology has advanced a little since the 1955 launch of the Sea Wolf.
So Kemmerer gets 385 MW of reliable power for about a billion dollars. 2000 of these plants could supply the peak load of the entire US. So $2 Trillion later Ocasio-Cortez gets to shut up about green energy. Sounds like a deal to me. With power to spare you could do lots of "green" things. The French will take care of the waste for you if Hitachi and GE don't know what to do (doubtful). The oil companies will be mad. No 30 trillion or 90 trillion dollar pork barrels for the bunch in DC. Crocodile tears.
Where would car exhaust go? You can build reliable, energy sources that produce no harmful emissions. Particularly if you have plentiful electric power.
Oh, if Yellowstone goes, we will have bigger troubles.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mean Gene 11/18/2021 7:33:43 PM (No. 981926)
Will there be the mandatory 30+ years worth of studies and permit gathering?
Or, does Bill just get to pick a spot and start building?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
curious1 11/18/2021 9:59:33 PM (No. 981992)
Wish they were pouring this money into a molten salt Thorium reactor - you know, like the one that was tested at Oakridge back in the 60s. The one the Chinese scarfed up copies of all the data on and are now going to put their updated version on-line in the next few years, if not sooner.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/19/2021 2:02:21 AM (No. 982066)
Bill Gates and his 180 Billions should afford a lover outside of his own charity and leave US normals alone.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
5 handicap 11/19/2021 6:24:08 AM (No. 982122)
#17 I live less than 15 miles from Three mile Island and a lot more than 100 people have died from various diseases including several forms of cancer..I believe the cancer rate is explosive in Japan after the Tsunami destroyed their Plant then there is Russia'a plant that went up. Perhaps people in Iowa don't read the news paper.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/19/2021 7:26:26 AM (No. 982174)
He should have put it in Portland or Minneapolis........no intelligent life left there anyway.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 11/19/2021 1:52:53 PM (No. 982711)
Thorium reactors always manage to be the power reactor of the future.....since the 60s.
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