Russia's war has stalled a next-gen US nuclear reactor backed by Bill Gates – because it's lost its sole supplier of uranium
A next-generation nuclear reactor project backed by Bill Gates and the US Department of Energy has hit a wall — because its only source for theTerraPower, the company behind the project, has pushed back bringing its flagship reactor into operation by at least two years, due to the fallout from western sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
"In February 2022, Russia's invasion of Ukraine caused the only commercial source of HALEU fuel to no longer be a viable part of the supply chain for TerraPower, as well as for others in our industry," Levesque said in aEfforts to get US manufacturers in commercial production and to find alternative suppliers have not worked out, he said.
Gates helped found TerraPower in 2006 and has served as its chairman since then. The company has said its aim is TerraPower plans to fuel Natrium with HALEU , which has a higher level of enrichment than the 5%-enriched uranium-235 fuel used by American nuclear reactors already in operation.
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