Microsoft CEO Bill Gates decided to build his own nuclear power plant and named it after Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons."
The Natrium nuclear power plant will be built in Wyoming. The old coal plant that will be replaced by the facility is slated to shut down by the year 2025, and is expected to create as many as 250 jobs once completed.
Gates founded TerraPower, an energy company that is owned by Warren Buffet.
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque said in a press release that his company's innovative technology will help ensure the continued production of reliable electricity while also transitioning our energy system and creating new, good-paying jobs in Wyoming.
The energy is changing.
Natrium is going to be a 345-megawatt reactor that will serve roughly 250,000 homes in the area around Kemmerer, according to The Guardian. The hope is that this type of reactor will be safer than older and more traditional ones.
Gates said during the project's launch event that Natrium will be a game-changer.
Others aren't so sure of the technology. The director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists believes that liquid sodium has many problems.
Lyman told the newspaper that he didn't understand the motivation. Some people who are strong advocates for it have won the day by convincing Bill Gates that this is a good technology to pursue.
It is a bit confusing as to why two of the most prominent billionaires in the world are teaming up to build a nuclear power plant in a tiny Wyoming town, but it is also giving off big.
Bill Gates backed experimental nuclear power plant heads to Wyoming.
Bill Gates was disliked by his employees.
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