BREAKING:
Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director resigns
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1461456412987559943?s=21
Kek and cheers to that!
Reminds me of TerraPower.
Founded by [Bill Gates] & he’s chairman of the board.
Officials announced Tuesday that the small city of Kemmerer, Wyoming would be the site of a new Bill Gates-backed nuclear power project—an initiative whose proponents say would provide climate-friendly and affordable energy but which some scientists warn is a dangerous diversion from true energy solutions.
“Gates has continually downplayed the role of proven, safe renewable energy technology in decarbonizing our economy.”
The experimental Natrium nuclear power plant will be at the site of the coal-fired Naughton Power Plant, slated for retirement in 2025, though siting issues are not yet finalized. The company behind the project is TerraPower. Gates, who helped found TerraPower, is chairman of the board.
“Mr. Gates,” nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen wrote in an open letter in August, Natrium “is following in the footsteps of a 70-year-long record of sodium-cooled nuclear technological failures. Your plan to recycle those failures and resurrect liquid sodium again will siphon valuable public funds and research from inexpensive and proven renewable energy alternatives.”
The project in October received an $80 million U.S. Department of Energy grant.
“Our innovative technology,” Chris Levesque, president and CEO of TerraPower, said in a statement Tuesday, “will help ensure the continued production of reliable electricity while also transitioning our energy system and creating new, good-paying jobs in Wyoming.”
The company said that once the plant is operational, likely in seven years, it will employ approximately 250 people and is slated to produce 345 megawatts of power.
A feature of the future plant, TerraPower says, is “a molten salt-based energy storage system”—technology it claims represents “a significant advance over the light water reactor plants in use today.”
At a June press conference, Gates said Natrium was poised to “be a game-changer for the energy industry.” In a Tuesday tweet, Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming gave a similar message, saying “the Natrium reactor is the future of nuclear energy in America.”
While the company asserts the safety of Natrium’s sodium-cooled fast reactor, a report released in March by the Union of Concerned Scientists, entitled “Advanced” Isn’t Always Better, casts doubt on those claims.
https://insiderpaper.com/scientists-warn-that-bill-gates-experimental-nuclear-plant-is-outright-dangerous/
https://www.terrapower.com/