Bill Gates’ bad bet on plutonium-fueled reactors - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bill Gates’ bad bet on plutonium-fueled reactors - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: One of Bill Gates’ causes is to replace power plants fueled by coal and natural gas with climate-friendly alternatives. That has led the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder to embrace nuclear power. But Gates has been persuaded to back a costly reactor design fueled by nuclear-weapon-usable plutonium and shown, through decades of experience, to be expensive, quick to break down, and difficult to repair.