Wyoming
Bill Gates Is Backing a Nuclear Power Project in Wyoming
Work is starting in Wyoming coal country on a new type of reactor. Its main backer, Bill Gates, says he’s in it for the emissions-free electricity.
Outside a small coal town in southwest Wyoming, a multibillion-dollar effort to build the first in a new generation of American nuclear power plants is underway.
Workers began construction on Tuesday on a novel type of nuclear reactor meant to be sma... [1285 chars]