{"id":463389,"date":"2010-03-23T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:13:31","slug":"bill-gates-backed-terrapower-and-toshiba-are-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463389","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower And Toshiba Are Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TerraPower, a company that develops reactors powered by depleted uranium, is in talks with Toshiba in view of developing a small nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n<p>TerraPower is a unit of Intellectual Ventures, a patent holding investment firm partially backed by Bill Gates and run out of Bellevue, Wash., by former Microsoft executive, Nathan Myhrvold. Japan\u2019s Nihon Keizai Shimbun first reported the news.<span id=\"more-7215\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/..\/2010\/01\/bill-gates-invest-in-vinod-khoslas-renewable-energy-fund-video\/\">In this recent interview<\/a> with Cnet News Gates discusses his investments in cleantech and in TerraPower.<\/p>\n<p>A Toshiba spokesman confirmed the discussions, reports the Wall Street Journal. He said the talks were at an early stage.<\/p>\n<p>TerraPower&#8217;s reactors initially start operating on a small amount of uranium but then run for decades on the uranium&#8217;s waste products.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is eager to have the country build nuclear reactors again, after a thirty-year hiatus. Last month the Department of Energy announced $8 billion in loan guarantee to support the construction of new reactors.<\/p>\n<p>TerraPower is not the sole developer of small, next-generation reactors. NuScale Power, backed by CMEA, and General Atomics are both working on a small nuclear reactor that would also run on spent fuel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/9nXe1RB8REs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TerraPower, a company that develops reactors powered by depleted uranium, is in talks with Toshiba in view of developing a small nuclear reactor. TerraPower is a unit of Intellectual Ventures, a patent holding investment firm partially backed by Bill Gates and run out of Bellevue, Wash., by former Microsoft executive, Nathan Myhrvold. Japan\u2019s Nihon Keizai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}