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The Nuclear Approach I'm Involved In Is Called A Traveling-wave Reactor, Which Uses Waste Uranium For Fuel. There's A Lot Of Things That Have To Go Right For That Dream To Come True - Many Decades Of Building Demo Plants, Proving The Economics Are Right. But If It Does, You Could Have Cheaper Energy With No Co2 Emissions.

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The Nuclear Approach I'm

Bill Gates

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The Nuclear Approach I'm Involved In Is Called A Traveling-wave Reactor, Which Uses Waste Uranium For Fuel. There's A Lot Of Things That Have To Go Right For That Dream To Come True - Many Decades Of Building Demo Plants, Proving The Economics Are Right. But If It Does, You Could Have Cheaper Energy With No Co2 Emissions.

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