{"id":121712,"date":"2021-04-18T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/how-bill-gates-company-terrapower-is-building-next-generation-nuclear-power"},"modified":"2021-04-18T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:22:22","slug":"how-bill-gates-company-terrapower-is-building-next-generation-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/how-bill-gates-company-terrapower-is-building-next-generation-nuclear-power","title":{"rendered":"How Bill Gates\u2019 company TerraPower is building next-generation nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bill-gates-company-terrapower-is-building-next-generation-nuclear-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TerraPower\u2019s ability to achieve those goals will be in no small part due to the money and influence of the company\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important factor is that Bill Gates is behind this,\u201d principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology <a href=\"https:\/\/web.mit.edu\/nse\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">department of nuclear science and engineering<\/a> Charles Forsberg tells CNBC Make It. \u201cThe most important factors in developing a new reactor are money and very competent people. Bill Gates brings both to the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how TerraPower is building advanced nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TerraPower\u2019s ability to achieve those goals will be in no small part due to the money and influence of the company\u2019s founder. \u201cThe most important factor is that Bill Gates is behind this,\u201d principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology department of nuclear science and engineering Charles Forsberg tells CNBC Make It. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}