Interesting. Bill Gates funding traveling wave reactor. [View All]

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A traveling-wave reactor, or TWR, is a kind of nuclear reactor that can convert fertile material into fissile fuel as it runs using the process of nuclear transmutation. TWRs differ from other kinds of fast-neutron and breeder reactors in their ability to use little or no enriched uranium, instead burning fuel made from depleted uranium, natural uranium, thorium, spent fuel removed from light-water reactors, or some combination of these materials. The name refers to the design characteristic that fission does not happen in the entire TWR core, but takes place in a fairly localized zone that advances through the core over time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor

TerraPower is a technology company headquartered in Washington, United States that does research on traveling wave reactors (TWRs). Its principal owner is Bill Gates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower,_LLC

http://www.intellectualventures.com/TerraPower.aspx