{"id":163622,"date":"2023-05-10T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/exclusive-bill-gates-on-the-future-of-nuclear-energy-ai"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:23:16","slug":"exclusive-bill-gates-on-the-future-of-nuclear-energy-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/exclusive-bill-gates-on-the-future-of-nuclear-energy-ai","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Bill Gates on the future of nuclear energy, AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-bill-gates-on-the-future-of-nuclear-energy-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TerraPower, founded by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2008, is opening a new nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The plant will be the first of its kind, with the company hoping to revolutionize the nuclear energy industry in the U.S. to help fight <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"_ap_link_climate change_ClimateChange_\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/climate-change\">climate change<\/a> and support American energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuclear energy, if we do it right, will help us solve our climate goals,\u201d Gates told ABC News. \u201cThat is, get rid of the greenhouse gas emissions without making the electricity system far more expensive or less reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates met with ABC News\u2019 chief business, economics, and technology correspondent <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"_ap_link_Rebecca Jarvis_RealBiz_\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/real-biz\">Rebecca Jarvis<\/a> in Kemmerer to talk about the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TerraPower, founded by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2008, is opening a new nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The plant will be the first of its kind, with the company hoping to revolutionize the nuclear energy industry in the U.S. to help fight climate change and support American energy independence. \u201cNuclear energy, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,493,39,873,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-climatology","category-economics","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163622","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}