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States look to smaller advanced nuclear reactors for power needs
Interest in advanced nuclear reactors has been growing among states. Many companies have designs of advanced reactors in ...
Nuclear Power Is Back. And This Time, AI Can Help Manage the Reactors.
Argonne National Lab has an AI-based tool that can help design and operate nuclear reactors—at a time when AI itself is ...
How Bill Gates, the Altair 8800 and BASIC propelled me into the PC revolution
Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...
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These nuclear companies are leading the race to build advanced small reactors in the U.S.
The nuclear industry is racing to launch advanced small ... CEO of TerraPower, an advanced reactor company co-founded and backed by Bill Gates, told CNBC. Despite growing interest in restarting closed ...
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Dow wants to power its Texas manufacturing complex with new nuclear reactors instead of natural gas
It's reviewing an application by Bill Gates and his energy company, TerraPower, to build an advanced reactor in Wyoming.
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US chemical firm eyes 100 MW nuclear reactors to cut 500,000 tons CO2 emissions
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Is a nuclear renaissance coming?
Cheaper renewables and natural gas began edging out nuclear generation; the San Onofre nuclear plant near San Diego shut down in 2012, and Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo was slated for retirement ...