"...According to BusinessWeek’s Shigeru Sato, a Gates investment, TerraPower, is in discussion with Toshiba to develop small-scale nuclear power generators....He’s trying to reboot the nuclear industry with a concept called a Traveling-Wave Reactor. Put simply — very simply — a Traveling Wave Reactor doesn’t generate tons upon tons of spent, radioactive fuel. Instead, it eats the fuel we’ve already created, running for nearly a 100 years without needing more fuel, and without generating waste...."
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