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Bill Gates has a joint venture with China Nuclear Corp to build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor

• nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

TerraPower has been leading the charge in the development of cutting-edge nuclear energy technologies that offer scalable, sustainable, safe and cost-competitive energy options.

Through the development of the traveling wave reactor (TWR) program and molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) project, TerraPower is setting new standards in the development of advanced nuclear energy systems.

Traveling-wave reactors, which are still in the development stage, promise a high degree of safety at low cost, experts say. A traveling-wave reactor is a type of small modular reactor and less costly to produce than larger reactors.

TerraPower says its goal is "to achieve startup of its prototype TWR reactor in the mid-2020s, followed by global commercial deployment."


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