Bill Gates on next-generation nuclear power technology

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In Wyoming, where coal and natural gas power its electric generation plants, Bill Gates and his energy company TerraPower are planning their first cutting-edge nuclear power plant. He talks with correspondent Barry Petersen about building a more efficient power plant that creates significantly less nuclear waste.

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  1. I wish rich folk would just stay in their lane.

    You don’t see me predicting brain surgery procedures do you?

    He invented computer software and is now an electrical grid expert?
    Stay in your lane dude!

  2. Not sure about how politically correct is the fact I started laughing the moment I saw the anchor. Then Bill appeared and I started convulsing

  3. (I Really think our best option for our Future, is Utilizing New Nuclear energy options) Small form reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, liquid reactors. Utilizing our advanced modern technology. Improved engineering & material science. Utilizing our greater understanding of safety & designs. We have so much More advanced computer technology, robotics. It will really allow any nation to be pretty much energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, etc.
    We need to heal from the trauma of our past. See & learn that those things only happened solely from Us not understanding what we were doing when it came to nuclear energy. We didn't have advanced enough technology, material science, engineering, safety measures, understanding of how to go about everything, etc. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lowering emissions. More than anything else could, while also providing a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we have alternative energy options but the majority of our grid is powered off of fossil fuels and emission producing sources of energy. We will be so much better going forward commiting to modern advanced nuclear energy options.

    So many people i know work so hard yet can barely afford the most basic cost of living..
    It baffles me. Even tho Society is struggling, We are yet to even attempt to implement a concept around: "The better off the lowest income people are doing; The better off the rest of the economy could be doing." -Think of it like a ecosystem in nature. The littlest things might seem insignificant yet, if they crumbled away, the entire ecosystem could crumble. The last things remaining would be the top things in the food chain.. the whales would all be gone once the plankton crumble away, the sharks would eat the whales. Then once all that's left is sharks, the sharks would eat the sharks. *(Think of this but as a analogy for our economy and our modern day society..)

    If we instead decided to support the lowest people in the ecosystem, there would be a beneficial dispersion towards other aspects of the society benefiting. All because the lowest people would be flourishing. (I say flourish but I really mean: Able to obtain the most basic living standards..) Yet even that would Vastly improve our current state of our economy & society

    *Also imagine this analogy in our economy. The more help we invest in the lowest level people, the more it would trickle into every facet of our economy. If poor people can pay their rent & not go homeless: landlords would get $, businesses would get $, banks would get $, local small shops would get $, mortgages & bills could be paid, insurance companies would get $, Taxes would get $, So essentially that $ would go out & filter right back in to improve our Country while simultaneously improving our quality of Life. Every bit of the economy would somehow find a way to benefit off of this situation… I don't get why we haven't even Given it a chance?? If it doesn't help? Then by all means stop it and figure out what else we should do. (I hope we TRY something soon, before things get any more unstable. The worst thing we could do is continue on doing exactly what we are currently doing.)

  4. in the oil industry they drill 40,000 ft into the ground. why can't they put the waste 40,000 feet into the ground and cap it. Anything you put down there will not be seen again.

  5. Will Bill give us the breakthrough power source before or after he forces people to be vegans and gives everyone forced vaccinations through mosquitoes. Look it up. This is a truly pathetic Climate Changer propaganda piece.

  6. Sir, what about next virus? We need to lockdown the world immediately. Please do some new theory and roll out some new story quickly

  7. Wealth of the wicked is layed up for me they shall gather it up but I shall put it on he that by usery and Unjust gain increaset his substance he shall gather it up for me because I pity the poor they work for me

  8. internette c est la machine a voyager dans le temps avec un microprossesseur internette c est du droit vous n avez pas la tecnologie sans le droits loi mystique loi religieuse loi tecnologique loi scientifique la religion c est le droits

  9. Why would we keep polluting if we have clean options?!?!? I'll never understand conservative's lack of conservation of nature. Where are the Teddy Roosevelt Republicans?!?! The small amounts of nuclear waste can be buried deep in the ground and will never cause problems. Burning coal and oil is literally going to make the Earth uninhabitable. wtf

    Bill Gates: Come to Appalachia!!!

  10. The demon that possesses him is actually Apollyon the destroyer… He has no dominion over us cast him out of this world and y'all figured that out yet

  11. Amazing to witness and see that even the worst haters of Gates see the logic and common sense in his plan to build next gen nuclear plant.

  12. Anybody else remember hearing about molten salt reactors way back in like 2010? and now it's finally happening on a large scale. wild.

  13. Nuclear is THE answer. An THORIUM is the element. No risk of nuclear melt down. Can not be made into weapons. And is all over the place so very abundant. Bill should know this. So one should question his real motives

  14. Nuclear Power is not green at all! Nuclear Energy produces enormous amounts of radioactive material that will be Dangerously Toxic for thousands of years. Nuclear Power plants are also very vulnerable to accidents natural and otherwise!

  15. 英国或者说欧洲中世纪社会阶层怎么划分的::比如中国士农工商::当然英法德意都能说明更好,我看不懂英文,还请麻烦用翻译软件翻译成中文,真的非常感谢:::How to divide the UK or the Chinese century social class: such as China Roman Business :: Of course, British and French can explain better, I don't understand English, please use the translation software to translate into Chinese, I really thank you ::

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