{"id":698945,"date":"2010-03-23T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:13:31","slug":"bill-gates-backed-terrapower-and-toshiba-are-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/698945","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower And Toshiba Are Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TerraPower, a company that develops reactors powered by depleted uranium, is in talks with Toshiba in view of developing a small nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n

TerraPower is a unit of Intellectual Ventures, a patent holding investment firm partially backed by Bill Gates and run out of Bellevue, Wash., by former Microsoft executive, Nathan Myhrvold. Japan\u2019s Nihon Keizai Shimbun first reported the news.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this recent interview<\/a> with Cnet News Gates discusses his investments in cleantech and in TerraPower.<\/p>\n

A Toshiba spokesman confirmed the discussions, reports the Wall Street Journal. He said the talks were at an early stage.<\/p>\n

TerraPower’s reactors initially start operating on a small amount of uranium but then run for decades on the uranium’s waste products.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration is eager to have the country build nuclear reactors again, after a thirty-year hiatus. Last month the Department of Energy announced $8 billion in loan guarantee to support the construction of new reactors.<\/p>\n

TerraPower is not the sole developer of small, next-generation reactors. NuScale Power, backed by CMEA, and General Atomics are both working on a small nuclear reactor that would also run on spent fuel.<\/p>\n

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TerraPower, a company that develops reactors powered by depleted uranium, is in talks with Toshiba in view of developing a small nuclear reactor. TerraPower is a unit of Intellectual Ventures, a patent holding investment firm partially backed by Bill Gates and run out of Bellevue, Wash., by former Microsoft executive, Nathan Myhrvold. Japan\u2019s Nihon Keizai […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VPj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}