Bill Gates invests in mini-nuclear. Green advantages and atomic bomb risk
Bill Gates invests in nuclear power. The founder of Microsoft, joined by another billionaire, Warren Buffet, has decided to give life to new plants that will take the place of the old coal installations in the process of being dismantled. Gates pursues this project – we read on the Messenger – for fifteen years, when he formed the Terra Power experimental research group; Buffet is ready to provide the support of its PacifiCorp, one of the largest electricity distribution networks in the northwest of the United States.
Together the two companies – continues Il Messaggero – have conceived the module of a reactor that they call Natrium, and which they intend to disseminate in hundreds of locations starting from the United States by 2050. The rapid production of energy in the Natrium plants will be made using uranium ad high enrichment rate, an element that tempts many ill-intentioned people because it is easily convertible into fissile material, and therefore into potential atomic weapons. On the other side of the scale, there are undeniable ecological advantages. “This is the quickest and most direct route to CO2 footprint negativity,” said Gates in Wyoming. We absolutely need to see nuclear power circulate in our grids by 2030. “