More big-tech billionaires backing next-gen nuclear startups

Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 2:29PMANS Nuclear Cafe
Data from research firm PitchBook show a spike in nuclear investment. (Graph: Bloomberg)

The trend of big-tech billionaires of Silicon Valley investing in next-generation nuclear energy startup companies continues. In a March 22 article on the Bloomberg website, Lizette Chapman, of the site’s venture capital group, writes that these investors view nuclear power as “a solution to both cutting carbon emissions and weaning the world off now-controversial Russian gas.”