Wave of the future: Unlike today’s reactors, a traveling-wave reactor requires very little enriched uranium, reducing the risk of weapons proliferation. (Click here for a larger diagram, also on ...

The traveling wave reactor dates back to 1958, and the days of the swooning love for anything atomic (the Shippingport, Pa., reactor started generating commercial electric power in 1957 and U.S ...

The traveling wave that the reactor's name references "moves" through the unit's core at a rate of only one centimeter per year. The wave doesn't actually move at all, but this is the easiest way ...

A recent design for a nuclear reactor known as a traveling wave reactor looks similar to some conventional nuclear designs, but the way it operates is very different. Credit: Terrapower Technology ...

This is part 5 of a series.To read from the beginning find part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here and part 4 here. The Molten salt rea ...

TerraPower Traveling Wave Fission Reactor May Be Developed Overseas April 7, 2017 June 24, 2011 by Brian Wang NY Times – If ongoing negotiations with a foreign sponsor are successfully completed then ...

For well over a decade, Bill Gates has funded TerraPower, a startup seeking to design, build, and commercialize a revolutionary nuclear reactor. Their traveling-wave reactor design uses depleted ...

The traveling wave reactor is unusual for having attracted venture capital. Generally, new reactor designs are developed by global corporations, often with government aid, not by start-ups.

What's the problem, can't make a coherent argument that it can't happen, so the appeal to lack of authority? That has the surprising conclusion that "the Western reactors (PWRs, BWRs, AGRs, and ...

The traveling-wave reactor is still virtual, existing only in software on computers at TerraPower headquarters. Mr. Myrhvold says there is a basic design, not a full blueprint.

Generation III nuclear reactors have not shown much ability to overcome the weaknesses of conventional Gen-II light-water reactor technology, offering at best evolutionary approaches. Is there ...

A traveling-wave reactor could use widely available depleted uranium and operate for 60 years without refueling. The game was created from clips and keyboard inputs alone, as a demo for real-time ...