Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill Gates-backed TerraPower

TerrapowerThe start of the Bill Gates and the supported nuclear start, announced a new $ 650 million financing this week. The investment will help the company build the first commercial power plant.

Like other nuclear startings, Terrapower rode a wave of interest Hyperscalers, data center developers and now from chip designers. Nvidia’s enterprise goal, Nventures, celebrated the first energy investment in the round.

Bill Gates and HD Hyundai, both in the lid table, are both invested.

Terrapower began to build the first power plant in Wyoming in June 2024. The company does not approve the reactor itself, although it is expected to get permission for a while next year. Given the right attitude of Trump management to the nucleus, the schedule seems reasonable.

When completed, the first reactor of Terraper will produce 345 megawatts of electricity between today’s mass reactors.

Terraper’s sodium reactors are cooled by melted sodium, not water. Sodium design uses more sodium than required to cool the reactor. Design: When the demand is low, the reactor can then continue the heat sodium stored in large tanks.

When the requirement rises again, steam turbines can heat from sodium. This allows nuclear power plants not to easily descend, it allows sodium reactors to continue operating in a sustainable position.

The storage system is designed to produce more than five hours of electricity, to help fill the gaps in the solar and wind generation.

The startup was previously followed by a different reactor design hoping to be completed in the mid-2020. However, after the installation of uncertainties, the course changed the current sodium design.

Terrapower claims that the reactor can complete a reactor in three years after the first concrete collection for the reactor. Still, a large number of sites need to be prepared and building the construction.

If the first sodium reactor will be cheaper than US reactors, it will not be cheap: Associated Press, the bill last year has been reported that the bill can reach $ 4 billionHalf can be shoulder by the energy department.