Bill Gates: How the world can avoid a climate disaster
"Without innovation, we will not solve climate change. We won't even come close," Gates says. Anderson Cooper reports for 60 Minutes.
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Bill Gates has been promoting the idea of the "traveling wave reactor" (TWR), a new kind of nuclear reactor which, if it works, will be able to burn the nuclear waste made from current-technology reactors. It will also be able to burn thorium and "depleted" uranium. Bill Gates isn't just talking about it; he has invested in a company trying to develop this technology.