Perhaps the time has come for this tech.
8/3/11:
TerraPower—with the backing of Bill Gates—has a radical vision for the reactors of tomorrow
- Thanks to his role funding and guiding a start-up called TerraPower LLC, where he serves as chairman, Mr. Gates has become a player in a field of inventors whose goal is to make nuclear reactors smaller, cheaper and safer than today's nuclear energy sources
- "A cheaper reactor design that can burn waste and doesn't run into fuel limitations would be a big thing," Mr. Gates says
- The type of reactor TerraPower is working on, ... could reduce the need for enrichment and reprocessing of uranium.
- It's a slow, controlled reaction that could continue over many years without need of human intervention.
Here's a Ted talk on Terrapower
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