{"id":170456,"date":"2026-07-29T11:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/170456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:54:23","slug":"bill-gates-to-visit-korea-next-month-strengthening-smr-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/170456\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates to Visit Korea Next Month, Strengthening SMR Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260730_01160115000001_M00.jpg\" orgwidth=\"500\" orgheight=\"334\" alt=\"\uc0ac\uc9c4\uc124\uba85\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300<br \/>\nBill Gates, founder of TerraPower and chairman of the Gates Foundation, is expected to visit Korea next month to discuss cooperation in energy fields, including small modular reactors (SMRs).<\/p>\n<p>According to industry sources on the 29th, Gates is scheduled to visit Korea next month and meet with Prime Minister Han Seong-sook. The meeting was reportedly requested first by Gates&#8217; side. Specific agenda items and the list of attendees are likely to be coordinated by SK Group, TerraPower&#8217;s major shareholder. During his visit, Gates is expected to meet with domestic companies, including SK and HD Hyundai, to discuss ways to cooperate on SMR projects.\n<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Gates in 2008, TerraPower is developing Natrium, a fourth-generation reactor based on a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) that uses liquid sodium as a coolant. In March, it received a construction permit from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for Kemmerer Unit 1 in Wyoming, and began full-scale reactor construction in April. It is the first case in the United States in which a commercial-scale next-generation nuclear power plant has received a construction permit.\n<\/p>\n<p>Participation by domestic companies is also taking shape. SK Group invested $250 million in 2022 and became a major TerraPower shareholder. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries was selected in May as the preferred bidder to supply key equipment for the reactor enclosure system (RED), a main component.\n<\/p>\n<p>[Lee Jin-han]\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\">\nThis article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.\n<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>TerraPower<\/p>\n<p> SMR alliance<\/p>\n<p> HD Hyundai<\/p>\n<p> SK Group<\/p>\n<p> project concretization<\/p>\n<p> Gates Foundation<\/p>\n<p> Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Bill Gates, founder of TerraPower and chairman of the Gates Foundation, is expected to visit Korea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[156],"tags":[651,1019,77973,381,77974,49965,77972,2336],"class_list":["post-170456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bill-gates","tag-bill-gates","tag-gates-foundation","tag-hd-hyundai","tag-prime-minister","tag-project-concretization","tag-sk-group","tag-smr-alliance","tag-terrapower"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117003135922406625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}