{"id":46855,"date":"2026-03-05T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/us-approves-construction-of-first-new-generation-commercial-nuclear-reactor-in-years\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:11:16","slug":"us-approves-construction-of-first-new-generation-commercial-nuclear-reactor-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/us-approves-construction-of-first-new-generation-commercial-nuclear-reactor-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves construction of first new generation commercial nuclear reactor in years"},"content":{"rendered":"

US regulators have approved the construction of a commercial nuclear reactor in Wyoming, backed by Bill Gates. Construction of the $4 billion facility will begin soon, with launch scheduled for 2030.<\/p>\n

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United States regulators have issued the first permit in eight years for the construction of a commercial nuclear reactor, which will be built in Wyoming with the support of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. This was reported by AP, writes UNN.<\/p>\n

Details<\/h2>\n

TerraPower's project involves the creation of a unique sodium-cooled facility, which will be the country's first approved commercial non-light water reactor in four decades. Construction of the approximately $4 billion facility is expected to begin in the coming weeks, with full operation of the plant scheduled for 2030.<\/p>\n

Technological features and power of the sodium reactor<\/h2>\n

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The reactor's design capacity is 345 megawatts, but during peak loads, the system can generate up to 500 megawatts of energy thanks to innovative heat storage systems.<\/p>\n

This volume of generation is enough to provide electricity to about 400,000 private homes, making the technology promising for stabilizing power grids in regions with high consumption.<\/p>\n

Strategic importance for energy-intensive data centers<\/h2>\n

Bill Gates, who is the main investor in TerraPower, sees next-generation nuclear energy as a key tool for powering modern data centers needed for the development of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

As AI systems require colossal amounts of stable electricity, small modular sodium-cooled reactors can become an environmentally friendly alternative to coal-fired power plants. TerraPower President Chris Levesque emphasized that obtaining the permit was the result of thousands of hours of work and marks the beginning of a new era in the American nuclear industry.<\/p>\n

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US regulators have approved the construction of a commercial nuclear reactor in Wyoming, backed by Bill Gates. Construction of the $4 billion facility will begin soon, with launch scheduled for 2030. United States regulators have issued the first permit in eight years for the construction of a commercial nuclear reactor, which will be built in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}