China and Bill Gates discuss nuclear reactor plan | BBC News.
With the Japanese Disaster still fresh in mind and the seeming lack of interest in the United States for nuclear power. Bill Gate’s firm Terrapower is in discussions with China to build the first disaster proof reactor. Research in this 4th Generation reactor will take 5 years and could cost more than 1 billion dollars.
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