10 June 2021
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It s hard to imagine a future where we can decarbonise our power grid affordably without using more nuclear power, Bill Gates told participants in the
Nuclear Energy Assembly, held this week as a virtual event by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). The text of his keynote speech on 9 June is as follows. Obviously as the fact that we re not all in a room together right now attests, we have faced an historic global public health crisis over the past year-and-a-half. COVID-19 has killed millions, devastated economies and disrupted the lives of everyone on the planet.
We still have a long way to go before we can say that we ve contained the pandemic, especially in the countries around the world that don’t have full access to vaccines. But the fact that we
09 June 2021
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New nuclear technologies will be needed alongside existing nuclear plants and renewables as the USA transitions to a carbon-free future, but they will continue to need legislative support at the federal and state level, utility leaders said during the opening session of the Nuclear Energy Institute s
Nuclear Energy Assembly this week.
(Image: NEI) It s been an incredibly trying year - not just for our industry, but for the country as a whole. The pandemic has forced us to think differently, Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Maria Korsnick said in her opening address. We re thinking differently about how we want to work and live. About how to strengthen our economy and our infrastructure. And when it comes to energy, we re thinking differently about the best way to reach a carbon-free future. This year, our message to the world is simple: Nuclear energy is the source that can make it all work - not just electricity production, but job creation, economic revital
States like Wyoming and Montana are evaluating replacing coal with nuclear and Bill Gates’ TerraPower, has partnered with GE Hitachi, Bechtel, Energy Northwest, Duke Energy, DOE and the State of Wyoming to do just that with their new 345MW fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system.
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TerraPower and PacifiCorp announced efforts to advance a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. The companies are evaluating several potential locations in the state. The Natrium technology has a 345MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt-based integrated energy storage system that will provide.