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Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy

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

t-3 writes:

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, @04:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:42PM (#793075)

    no no no, the wall was actually there, but it got delete in the windows update.

    with nuclear being "to big to fail" in soem minds, there will ALWAYS be a FURTHER reason why nuclear is actually SAFE but FAILED because of that darn 3rd screw from the top ... or something.

    and some think of nuclear as "no child left behind". nevermind it made whole countries enact laws that each and every new house must have a bomb proof shelter. that whole islands and swats of land where made inliveable. that a whole planet was ducking for 50 odd years waiting for the end. nuclear can be better and can be SAFE. just like the crocodile or the bear or the tiger in the zoo ...