{"id":226303,"date":"2025-12-02T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bill-gates-terrapower-gets-nrc-green-light-for-safety-in-construction-of-its-first-nuclear-plant"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:06:07","slug":"bill-gates-terrapower-gets-nrc-green-light-for-safety-in-construction-of-its-first-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bill-gates-terrapower-gets-nrc-green-light-for-safety-in-construction-of-its-first-nuclear-plant","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates\u2019 TerraPower gets NRC green light for safety in construction of its first nuclear plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrapower.com\/\">TerraPower<\/a> has passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff\u2019s final safety evaluation for a permit to build a reactor in Wyoming. The Washington-based company backed by Bill Gates and NVIDIA could be the first to deploy a utility-scale, next-generation reactor in America.<\/p>\n<p>TerraPower\u2019s Natrium design pairs a small modular reactor (SMR) with an integrated thermal battery. The SMR generates 345 megawatts of continuous electrical power. The thermal battery, which stores excess heat in molten salt, allows the system to surge its output to 500 megawatts for more than five hours, generating enough energy to power 400,000 homes at maximum capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a momentous occasion for TerraPower, our project partners and the Natrium design,\u201d said company CEO Chris Levesque in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrapower.com\/ceo-statement-on-final-safety-review-of-natrium\">statement<\/a> issued Monday. The favorable assessment \u201creflects years of rigorous evaluation, thoughtful collaboration with the NRC, and an unwavering commitment to both safety and innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power company TerraPower has passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff\u2019s final safety evaluation for a permit to build a reactor in Wyoming. The Washington-based company backed by Bill Gates and NVIDIA could be the first to deploy a utility-scale, next-generation reactor in America. TerraPower\u2019s Natrium design pairs a small modular reactor (SMR) with an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226303","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=226303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}