China isn’t building a traveling wave nuclear plant (yet)
December 8, 2011
A recent design for a nuclear reactor known as a traveling wave reactor looks similar to some conventional nuclear designs, but the way it operates is very different (credit: Terrapower)
TerraPower, a company backed by Bill Gates that’s developing a new kind of nuclear reactor power plant that can run for decades on abundant fuel, is in discussions with China and other countries, includingtwo research centers in India, Technology Review Potential Energy reports.