Bill Gates: Makes good case for Nukes
• CNNGates spent significant time highlighting nuclear technology that would turn spent uranium -- the 99% of uranium rods that aren't burned in current nuclear power plants -- into electricity. That technology could power the world indefinitely;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=266
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22114/
From the folks who brought you laser zapping mosquitos come a new kind of nuclear reactor:
http://www.intellectualventures.com/docs/terrappower/IV_Introducing%20TWR_3_6_09.pdf
http://intellectualventureslab.com/?page_id=532