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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by danschumann on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:08PM (#17843354)
I heard Bill Gates on a ted talk a long time about talking about some sort of nuclear power that would burn waste and was like a candle. I think this isn't that.. but anyway, it'll be nice if we have excess power.
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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by acidburnNSA on Saturday August 25, 2018 @09:03PM (#17843585)
That's the traveling wave reactor which is just a breeder that doesn't need reprocessing. The first will be sodium metal cooled (not salt). This is a fluid fuel reactor that has similar reprocessing reducing goals.
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