The billionaire Bill Gates made a trip this to Idaho on behalf of his nuclear power start-up to see what he can learn at the Idaho National Laboratory.
According to the INL's press shop, the Microsoft co-founder found the tour to be pretty insightful.
Gates is chairman of the nuclear reactor startup company , which is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.
The goal of TerraPower is to develop a nuclear reactor that draws power from nuclear waste -- a quest detailed last month in a New York Times profile.
It noted that although Gates is the second-richest person in the world (sitting on $72 billion, according to Forbes), he's trying to raise $5 billion to build a demonstration plant in China.
TerraPower has been working with the Idaho National Laboratory on design aspects for its reactor -- which is referred to as a "traveling wave reactor" because of the wave pattern traveled by the converted plutonium during fission.
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