Bill Gates to visit Xiamen University for cooperation on nuclear power
Updated: 03 Feb 2010
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Bill Gates and XMU President Zhu Chongshi
Bill Gates sent a letter to Zhu Chongshi, president of Xiamen University
Xiamen University has revealed that Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder just sent a letter to Zhu Chongshi, president of Xiamen University, to express his wish to visit the Xiamen campus in the near future.
According to informed sources, Bill Gates will discuss the possibility of cooperation on nuclear power with Xiamen University and even the Fujian Province. It is reported that Bill Gates has built a nuclear power company called TerraPower in 2006, and Li Ning, director of Asian Development Division of TerraPower is also the dean of School of Nuclear Research in Xiamen University.
Xiamen University is now doing research on traveling-wave reactor (a kind of nuclear reactor) and expected to establish a new nuclear energy R&D center in China.
In the second annual report of the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation released on 25th January, Bill Gates said that energy is probably the biggest market in the world and developing cheap energy is a good way to help the poorest people.
It is reported that a delegation headed by Bill Gates visited Beijing from November 4th to 5th, 2009 at the invitation of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation.
According to informed sources, Bill Gates will discuss the possibility of cooperation on nuclear power with Xiamen University and even the Fujian Province. It is reported that Bill Gates has built a nuclear power company called TerraPower in 2006, and Li Ning, director of Asian Development Division of TerraPower is also the dean of School of Nuclear Research in Xiamen University.
Xiamen University is now doing research on traveling-wave reactor (a kind of nuclear reactor) and expected to establish a new nuclear energy R&D center in China.
In the second annual report of the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation released on 25th January, Bill Gates said that energy is probably the biggest market in the world and developing cheap energy is a good way to help the poorest people.
It is reported that a delegation headed by Bill Gates visited Beijing from November 4th to 5th, 2009 at the invitation of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation.
XMU President Zhu Chongshi accompanied the visitors during their tour of the China Institute of Atomic Energy and the China Experimental Fast Reactor on November 5th. President Zhu gave the visitors an introduction to XMU and cordially invited Bill Gates to visit Fujian, Xiamen and XMU.
Translated by WOXnews.com
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