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posted by martyb on Monday January 28 2019, @01:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-sue-innovation dept.

Bill Gates thinks he has a key part of the answer for combating climate change: a return to nuclear power. The Microsoft co-founder is making the rounds on Capitol Hill to persuade Congress to spend billions of dollars over the next decade for pilot projects to test new designs for nuclear power reactors.

Gates, who founded TerraPower in 2006, is telling lawmakers that he personally would invest $1 billion and raise $1 billion more in private capital to go along with federal funds for a pilot of his company’s never-before-used technology, according to congressional staffers.

“Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day,” Gates said in his year-end public letter. “The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bill-gates-comes-to-washington--selling-the-promise-of-nuclear-energy/2019/01/25/4bd9c030-1445-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @05:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @05:04AM (#792887)

    of serviceabililty for any purpose. Would you accept a car that just locked up for no reason, and you and to restart it before you got where you wanted to go? Of course not! So what if you had a nuclear reactor controlled by Windows? Blue screen of death takes on all kinds of new meanings. "Glow in the Dark Screen of Death"? "Scream in the Dark of the Glow of Death that no one can hear?" Microsoft 10? Look up the Navy's attempt to run a warship with Windows. Confidence it does not inspire.