"TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) will offer a path to zero-emission, proliferation-resistant energy that produces significantly smaller amounts of nuclear waste than conventional nuclear reactors"
Renewable Energy Innovations: Green Technology
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Travelling Wave Reactor
While the Thorium Fuel Cycle is touted as a potential safe fission energy source, Freakonomics are examining the development of a new class of nuclear reactor. This is one of the projects Bill Gates has been working on since leaving Microsoft.
"TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) will offer a path to zero-emission, proliferation-resistant energy that produces significantly smaller amounts of nuclear waste than conventional nuclear reactors"
"TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) will offer a path to zero-emission, proliferation-resistant energy that produces significantly smaller amounts of nuclear waste than conventional nuclear reactors"
