In Tiny Wyoming Town, Bill Gates Bets Big on Nuclear Power

In Tiny Wyoming Town, Bill Gates Bets Big on Nuclear Power
In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, taillights trace the path of a motor vehicle at the Naughton Power Plant 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo., on Jan. 2013. Natalie Behring/AP Photo
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KEMMERER, Wyoming—In this sleepy Wyoming town that has relied on coal for over a century, a company founded by Bill Gates is launching an ambitious project to counter climate change: A nationwide reboot of nuclear energy technology.

Until recently, Kemmerer was little-known for anything except J.C. Penney’s first store and some 55-million-year-old fish fossils in quarries down the road.