 | Bill Gates has confirmed he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new and safe kind of nuclear reactor. "The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste," he said during a talk with Zhang Laiwu at China's Ministry of Science and Technology. |
| He also said that as much as one billion dollar will be invested into R&D of the reactor the following five years. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, famous forstarting Microsoft has turned into an philanthropist asking for energy miracles. As we have reported before, Gates have said that if he could wish for anything in the world, he would wish for energy that is half as expensive as coal and doesn't warm the planet. He said this as part of his TED Talk in which he summarized the world’s energy problems by saying "What we're going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system... So we need energy miracles." (to watch his TED Talk follow this link) Yesterday Bill Gates said that ”TerraPower has very good discussions with CNCC (China National Nuclear Corporation) and many persons in the Chinese government.” His decisive actions seems to tell us that he is not only asking for energy miracles, his is willing to provide them himself. Bill Gates Invests In Thorium Capable Reactor Venture, IThEO China and Bill Gates discuss nuclear reactor plan, BBC Bill Gates Discussing New Nuclear Reactor With China, WSJ Traveling Wave Reactor, TerraPower Bill Gates TerraPower Negotiates with Toshiba, IThEO |