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Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors (www.cityam.com)

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Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors::A Bill Gates-backed clean energy player is hoping to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the UK and will compete with global rivals.

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[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I dislike Bill Gates, I hope that this project finds success. With that said however, they're going against Rolls Royce, GE, and Hitachi, which are probably more trustworthy for the government than a relatively new startup

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Rolls Royce, GE, and Hitachi are more likely to succeed, but they're doing little to innovate beyond light water reactors. Even among LWRs, NuScale has a more interesting design because it contains enough water to shut down without human intervention.

It's good that some startups are trying to improve long-tail safety, because the probability of failure increases with the number of reactors in the world.