Bill Gates’ great $1B commitment to
nuclear energy should be a wake-up call
to climate progressives
New York Post,
by
Rikki Schlott
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
6/18/2024 5:52:56 PM
Nuclear power could be America’s saving grace — if progressive activists would only stop kneecapping its spread.
Although it’s both clean and abundant, nuclear power is often overlooked by a misinformed public and environmental activists alike.Bill Gates is championing nuclear power by committing $1 billion to the construction of a new next-generation plant.
TerraPower
But change makers like Bill Gates are championing the technology, and should be celebrated for doing so.
The billionaire philanthropist has invested $1 billion in TerraPower, a brand new nuclear power plant which commenced construction in June in Kemmerer, Wyoming.With Gates’ investment, TerraPower has started construction on its first nuclear power plant in Wyoming.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/18/2024 6:11:14 PM (No. 1739630)
It’s about darned time.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mariboo72 6/18/2024 6:22:13 PM (No. 1739633)
For once I agree with Bill Gates on something!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chagrined 6/18/2024 6:25:45 PM (No. 1739635)
"The China Syndrome" setback nuclear power development in this country for decades. Propaganda works.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2024 7:02:56 PM (No. 1739649)
Solar and wind are going nowhere, and Bill is looking for some long term power for his own use. Note that these are smallish, autonomous, un-manned systems. Perfect for a billionaire's hideout from the marauding bands of patriots.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/18/2024 7:12:51 PM (No. 1739658)
I think every nuclear power plant in the US was a unique engineering build compared to Germany and France which used their own designs for multiple builds - kind of a Henry Ford approach. Their constructions took much less money and decades less time to complete. Ours were also delayed by many years of legal obstruction levied by every level of government and numerous groups opposed to the 'horrors of nuclear power'. America is still beset by the difficulties finding waste sites as every mountain is somebody's 'holy ground' and our leftists who themselves are atheists will fight to the death for someone else's religious beliefs - unless it is for Christianity or Jews. I applaud Gates on this though I fear it will be generations before we see it come to fruition.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/18/2024 7:57:08 PM (No. 1739666)
"Philanthropist"? How much land does he get for his nuclear power plant that has a small footprint?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Felixed 6/18/2024 9:12:44 PM (No. 1739685)
Yes, #4, Gates can power his mega-bunker quietly, efficiently and almost "forever". Kinda like a nuclear submarine. But even nuke subs require a port visit now and then.
That's when the ravening hordes who have disabled and blocked his entrance/exit holes and then hovered over the air vents will they find their ultimate triumph.
Lots of uber-rich people are looking at dying "in style", locked away by themselves, never to see the sun or moon again. Even in New Zealand. What goes around, ultimately coming around.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2024 11:36:14 PM (No. 1739707)
Looking closer, this is a large end size of Gates' "Small modular reactor" concept. This is a fairly big, grid scale high power plant.
Gates has has supported the development of these "small modular reactors" which can be scaled up and down from 50 Megawatts to 300 Megawatts or so, and built in a central factory on an assembly line and shipped to the site.
This Wyoming unit is 345Mw, at the upper end of the "small" idea.
Proof of concept for a sodium cooled design, VERY different than other nuke plants.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
walcb 6/19/2024 7:54:37 AM (No. 1739810)
Convincing all the scientifically stupid Americans will be impossible.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LLAMA 6/19/2024 8:01:43 AM (No. 1739817)
Nuclear power plants are a great power source for the long term, but for the short term (now), we should be installing NG powered turbines by the thousands; they use no water, are relatively cheap, and can be put into operation quickly.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/19/2024 9:50:30 AM (No. 1739881)
Not a fan of nuclear...and gates is in this for the money...he cares nothing about the people....follow the money folks...as my darling husband used to say....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/19/2024 10:04:25 AM (No. 1739890)
Every time I'm in the company of some dim bulb who's scared of a nuclear power plant, I have three words for them: United States Navy. The USN has been running nuclear-powered ships and submarines around the world for about 70 years now, and what's happened? NOTHING. They have really tough schools for their "nukes" and they train them well. They're in demand when they leave active duty, too.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/19/2024 11:37:15 AM (No. 1739957)
FTA: "doesn’t create polluting byproducts." Let's step back from the altar of St. Gates and turn down the sales pitch just a bit.
Though I strongly support nuclear, there are still issues with waste disposal.
I think the real problem is that the Left is against energy in all its forms.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 6/19/2024 12:07:12 PM (No. 1739973)
As much money as Bill Gates has made off of computer viruses, I'm not so sure I want him anywhere near anything nuclear.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/19/2024 12:27:42 PM (No. 1739987)
@12 - Exactly about the US Navy. But of course, thanks to that movie The China Syndrome, even more idiots went anti-nuclear. And I really wish Republicans wold stop with the "all of the above approach" to power sources. Wind and solar are boutique at best. And will someone please end the ethanol subsidies!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/19/2024 3:48:16 PM (No. 1740089)
So... How many of the elites own / are buying tracts of land and will develop survival compounds near Gates' nuke plant?
No way he is building it for "Power to the people".
He hates us peasants and wants us all dead. (And I hope that this won't be the type of plant where weapons grade nuclear material is produced.... I hate the idea of Gates and his friends having their own nuclear weapon capability on top of their bioweapon production.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/20/2024 3:38:29 AM (No. 1740292)
Long overdue. But a good start. Perhaps Gates now smells the coffee? Gates, if my town south of your new generation plant will be getting some of the juice, big thanks. Besides, we weren't looking forward to the upcoming brownouts when Tri-State's coal-fired plant in Craig Colorado is decommissioned in 2030.
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