{"id":128364,"date":"2021-09-30T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/gates-startup-replaces-coal-plant-with-new-kind-of-nuclear-reactor"},"modified":"2021-09-30T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:22:41","slug":"gates-startup-replaces-coal-plant-with-new-kind-of-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/gates-startup-replaces-coal-plant-with-new-kind-of-nuclear-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Gates\u2019 Startup Replaces Coal Plant With New Kind of Nuclear Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gates-startup-replaces-coal-plant-with-new-kind-of-nuclear-reactor3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note, 6\/28\/21, 3:35 PM: The article was updated to clarify that Natrium features a sodium\u2010cooled fast reactor and not a type of molten salt reactor, as previously reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A nuclear power startup founded by Bill Gates has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrapower.com\/natrium-demo-wyoming-coal-plant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans<\/a> to build a new kind of nuclear reactor at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>This reactor will be the first real-world demonstration of the startup\u2019s technology, which could help power the world \u2014 without warming the climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note, 6\/28\/21, 3:35 PM: The article was updated to clarify that Natrium features a sodium\u2010cooled fast reactor and not a type of molten salt reactor, as previously reported. A nuclear power startup founded by Bill Gates has announced plans to build a new kind of nuclear reactor at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128364","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}