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Bill Gates is investing in advanced nuclear power development
Posted on June 27, 2008
I've got a hot tip for you. According to an article in Seattlepi.com titled What's next for Gates? Anything he can dream up, Gates is taking an active interest in a nuclear power project. He has been talking about all kinds of ideas with Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at Microsoft. According to Myhrvold, Gates is investing in a project inside Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures LLC, which is working on a new type of nuclear reactor that would use fuels other than enriched uranium -- including spent fuel from existing reactors.The idea is to create a nuclear reactor that is s...
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