One nuclear technology that TerraPower most likely won’t be pursuing is fusion.
“I have a soft spot in my heart for fusion, *having run the ITER program*and things like that, but it’s something I can’t count on for my grandchildren,” said Gilleland, whose background includes having served as U.S. managing director on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), based now in Cadarache, France. Innovation director Latkowski also comes from a fusion background. Before joining TerraPower last year, he was* chief scientist on the commercialization program at the National Ignition Facility*, the U.S.’s massive laser fusion project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/07/23/bill-gates-nuclear-company-explores-molten-salt-reactors-thorium/
