WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. nuclear regulator said on Wednesday it approved construction for the Bill Gates-backed TerraPower small nuclear reactor in Wyoming, the first approval for a plant expected to run on a special, more-enriched uranium fuel.
The approval, the first for a commercial reactor by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in nearly a decade, was for TerraPower's planned 345-megawatt sodium-cooled reactor to be built in Kemmerer, in the western part of the state. It is expected to be operational in the early 2030s.
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