The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Wednesday that it has awarded TerraPower a construction permit for its ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 4 authorized staff to issue a construction permit for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming—the first commercial reactor the ...

TerraPower could begin construction on its advanced nuclear reactor in Wyoming in the coming weeks.

It's the first permit to be issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in nearly a decade.

The Microsoft co-founder is betting next-generation nuclear reactors can power the AI boom while cutting carbon emissions.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction of a small nuclear reactor backed by Bill Gates' clean-energy company TerraPower. US Nuclear Regulator Clears TerraPower's ...

A Bill Gates-backed nuclear reactor dubbed “Cowboy Chernobyl” by critics is barreling toward approval in rural Wyoming, alarming residents and nuclear safety experts as regulators fast-track the ...

Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to fuel this reactor. The plant has already been under-construction since 2024, and a spokesman for TerraPower named Andy Hallmark confirmed to me that only the ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TerraPower President and CEO, Chris Levesque, issued a statement on the ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The NRC announced today the Commissioners voted to issue the first ever construction permit for an advanced, ...

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...