March 01, 2011 03:09 PM CST
Powered by Nuclear "Waste" →
Bill Gates is helping to fund a start-up called TerraPower LLC. The company hopes to build a nuclear reactor that can run for 50-100 years on the stuff that we currently consider to be nuclear waste.
Instead of storing it in Yucca Mountain, why don't we use it to generate clean electricity instead?
One big road block: getting a national government somewhere to allow someone to actually build and operate such a reactor.