Bill Gates invests to distribute nuclear "TerraPower" to 3rd world ?
Post date: Mar 23, 2010 9:51:16 AM
Bill Gates to distribute Nuclear Power reactors in 3rd World countries, with 100 years lifetime, avoids early
Waste problem Recycling. Toshiba will produce the Terra Power Uranium. Production is slated for early 2011.
Comment: If the product has as many failures as
Windows, well just nuclear fire for All, great.
source: reuters.com
TerraPower, LLC is a privately funded initiative focused on the development of a new reactor and simplified nuclear infrastructure. Objectives include reduction, and eventual elimination, of the need for enrichment facilities; elimination of any future need for chemical separations-based reprocessing facilities, utilization of natural or depleted uranium as fuel; and achievement of a COE competitive with clean coal plants. Participants include 65 individuals from UC Berkeley, MIT, UNLV, ANL, Burns & Row, CBCG, and Intellectual Ventures.
The reactor is based on the travelling wave concept. John Gilleland | video Terrapower
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Reader comment: earth2tech.com ....Safety ? Ground water contamination ?
As with all Nuclear proponents, it negates the most basic realities, the undisputable risks, and the undeniable catstrophic failures. There are no guarenteed safe locations for underground containment (earthquakes, floods, natural and man-made disasters), there are no guarenteed safe disposal methods for any waste by-products (whatever you contain the radioactive material in, eventually becomes radioactive), pumps, piping, machinery, buildings and every process that the fuel goes through to be utilized produces it’s own volume of radioactive waste. This waste is not utilized in this new process, but will continue to be ‘hazardous’ (deadly) for a 100,000 years. Can we guarentee the safety of this? Do we have the right to pass this legacy down to the future of Earth for our own ‘progress’? Why don’t we put all that money being spent into a safe renewable technology and stop throwing good money after bad.