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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:05PM from the bill-just-wants-a-vat-of-molten-salt dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "TerraPower, the Gates-chaired nuclear power company, has garnered the most attention for pursuing traveling wave reactor tech, which runs entirely on spent uranium and would rarely need to be refueled. But Terrapower just quietly announced that it's going to start seriously exploring thorium power, too."

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Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by networkBoy ( 774728 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:13PM (#44373621) Journal

oblig: as long as the cores don't have a BSOD...
That would be bad.
But in all honesty, I do like that his efforts are being spent on something like this, where the benefit to humanity is great.

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Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by Kazymyr ( 190114 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:16PM (#44373637) Journal

I agree, it's time we take thorium seriously. And if Bill Gates is the one who makes it happen, more power to him! (pun not intended)

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Re:Finally! (Score:4, Funny)

by Reverand Dave ( 1959652 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:27PM (#44373771)

Bill Gates as a person, separate from Microsoft does a lot of good in the world through his foundation and personal charitable contributions. When he stepped down as the CEO of MS, he got to hand the asshole mantle to Balmer who is now wearing that motherfucker like no one else can.

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Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by almitydave ( 2452422 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:47PM (#44373983)

Rumor has it the new thorium reactors will put out 640 kW, which oughta be enough for everybody.

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Panic.... (Score:1, Funny)

by TimO_Florida ( 2894381 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:48PM (#44374005)

"Why is everyone running?" "The reactor blue-screened and we found out it's running on VISTA!!"

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Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by Jeremiah Cornelius ( 137 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @05:17PM (#44374393) Homepage Journal

"I Came, I Thorium, I Barium".

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Re:Finally! (Score:4, Funny)

by almitydave ( 2452422 ) writes: on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @06:54PM (#44375261)

And thanks to the emergence of electric cars, drivers will use most of that.

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