natrium

In 2024, Bill Gates told CBS the full cost of his 375-megawatt Natrium reactor would be “close to $10 billion,” making its cost nearly $30 million per megawatt — almost twice Vogtle’s.

Microsoft co-founder Gates, who visited a closed down coal-fired plant in Glasgow, West Virginia on Monday, said he needs to see how his Natrium nuclear reactor demonstration in Wyoming performs before making any announcements about new sites.

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque said sites like the Glasgow plant are “ready and capable” to support a plant like Natrium because the company can take advantage of existing infrastructure, like the grid connection.

“We hope to say, three years from now, have a couple of utilities that have a pretty solid plan and that Natrium is a part of their multi-decade generation strategy,” he said.

TerraPower, a venture founded by billionaire Gates said last year its $4 billion Natrium plant would be build in Kemmerer, a remote Wyoming town where a coal plant is set to shut in 2025.