As China Option Fades, Bill Gates Urges US To Take the Lead in Nuclear Power, For the Good of the Planet

In his year-end letter, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says his to-do list for 2019 includes persuading U.S. leaders to regain America's leading role in nuclear energy research and embrace advanced nuclear technologies such as the concept being advanced by his own TerraPower venture. From a report: 'The world needs to be working on lots of solutions to stop climate change,' Gates wrote in the wide-ranging letter, released Saturday night. 'Advanced nuclear is one, and I hope to persuade U.S. leaders to get into the game.' Gates acknowledged that tighter U.S. export restrictions, put in place by the Trump administration, have virtually ruled out TerraPower's grand plan to test its traveling-wave nuclear technology in China. 'We had hoped to build a pilot project in China, but recent policy changes here in the U.S. have made that unlikely,' Gates wrote. He said 'we may be able to build it in the United States' if regulations are updated and the investment climate for nuclear power improves.

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