TerraPower is actually a nuclear reactor designed by Intellectual
Ventures that is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington in the United
States. They are now investigating a class of nuclear fast reactors
called the traveling-wave reactor (TWR).
Whereas standard light water reactors such as PWRs or BWRs running
worldwide use enriched uranium as fuel and need fuel reloads every few
years, the new technology of TWRs, once started, use depleted uranium
instead and…
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