Bill Gates and the 'nuclear Renaissance' - CNN.com
source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/17/bill.gates.nuclear/index.html
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• The Uranium isotope that's food for the new nuclear reactors doesn't have to be enriched, which means it's less likely to be used in atomic weapons.
• The fission reaction in the new process burns through the nuclear waste slowly, which makes the process safer. One supply of spent uranium could burn for 60 years.
• The fission reaction in the new process burns through the nuclear waste slowly, which makes the process safer. One supply of spent uranium could burn for 60 years.
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