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TerraPower is Researching a New Renewable Nuclear Energy Reactor Design

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:25:12 +0000

New designs for nuclear energy reactors could lead to a very sustainable, steady, and abundant source of renewable energy. One of the companies working on sophisticated ways to produce that energy is TerraPower, a company with ties to both of Microsoft’s founders. Bill Gates is also an advocate and financial supporter of the company. That’s […]

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Bill Gates Deals New, Safer Nuclear Reactors With China

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:47:53 +0000

If you’ve gotten used to seeing Bill Gates in the role of Microsoft CEO, then as the image of his foundation fighting for poverty alleviation, now it’s time to see him entering the energy business. Not kind of energy business, though, but a specially controversial one: nuclear power. Gates has begun discussions with Chinese authorities […]

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NASA May Build Nuclear Reactors on Moon and Mars

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:13:10 +0000

Nuclear power has originally been designed for use in terrestrial environments, but scientists at NASA think people could use nuclear fission reactors in extra-terrestrial environments such as the Moon, Mars or any other planet they may need power on. Nuclear fission doesn’t depend on sunlight, wind or any other element that may link it to […]

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Nuclear Power Plants Vulnerable to Effects of Climate Change

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:18:37 +0000

Lately, nuclear power has proven itself vulnerable not to terrorist attacks, but to nature itself. Disasters such as the well-known from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan raise questions about how safe nuclear power really is and how current and future plants will be able to cope with climate change.

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General Fusion Claims Cheap Nuclear Fusion Reactor: Competes With ITER

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:28:51 +0000

General Fusion, a small startup company from Canada, claims they can build a new type of a fusion power plant in the next ten years, and build it a lot cheaper than ITER - for less than a billion dollars. They have already gathered $13.5 million from various private and public investors, who understood their technology would work and want some share of the eventual profit.

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