Bill Gates chairs a company called TerraPower that is keen on taking nuclear power technology into the 21st century. The company primarily focuses on a so-called fast reactor that would produce nuclear waste with relatively low toxicity and a much shorter lifetime. But it’s also making inroads on a type of nuclear power with tremendous potential that we profiled back in January: thorium-fueled reactors. The Weinberg Foundation reports:
TerraPower is also investigating the possibility of deploying thorium, a fuel that Gilleland said could trump uranium by virtue of thorium’s wider availability. There is about four times more thorium than uranium in the world.
Thorium isn’t just more abundant, it’s also much safer, and can’t be used to make weapons-grade radioactive isotopes. TerraPower isn’t putting all its eggs in the thorium basket, howe....
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