Mar 23
Last time Bill Gates and Toshiba teamed up, it involved running Windows on a Qosmio. This time, it’s a nuclear reactor. Toshiba and Gates’s energy-investment company, TerraPower, are working to create a nuclear reaction. Seriously.
The traveling-wave reactor runs on depleted–rather than the standard enriched–uranium, ensuring that it has to be refueled only every 60 to 100 years. According to Fast Company, the reactors are “small enough to fit in a hot tub.” They’re part of Gates’s zero emissions goal.
Toshiba is already at work on a 4S (Super-Safe, Small and Simple) model reactor. It’s hoping to begin production on that model by 2014.
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