Armchair Critic- Thanks kudos. Intriguing premise.

To reuse discarded material would be the ultimate power source !

This whole feud with China is about one thing and one thing only.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-china-idUSKBN2BH2ZE

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would prevent China from passing the United States to become the most powerful country in the world, vowing to invest heavily to ensure America prevails in the race between the world’s two largest economies."

MONEY.

It's not about Taiwan, or Hong Kong, or Uyghurs or the South China Sea or the people of Tibet, NO.

The US takes down anyone, who even has the potential to rival it financially.
It can't beat countries any other way, China's building a belt and road initiative, they just put high speed rail in Laos, America doesn't have that, its decaying and falling apart.

US can't compete on a fair playing field, so it instead tries to undermine any destroy anyone else with the potential to rival it.

That's the truth.

You all need to wake up, you're all being played for fools.

The Real Reason America is Scared of China Global Expansion
http://youtu.be/flL6ZcS_czs

Skip to 38 mins in for discussion on China
http://youtu.be/2JDk8x0pIdU

Sounds like they take a pipe of U-238 as a hollow fuel rod and let the reaction proceed down the tube over 40 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

"TerraPower has chosen traveling wave reactors (TWRs) as its primary technology. The major benefit of such reactors is high fuel utilization in a manner that does not require nuclear reprocessing and could eventually eliminate the need to enrich uranium.[9] TWRs are designed to convert typically non-fissile fertile nuclides such as U-238 into fissile nuclides like Pu-239 in-situ and then shift the power from the highly burned region to the freshly bred region, as an integrated breeder reactor. This allows the benefits of a closed fuel cycle without the expense and proliferation-risk of enrichment and reprocessing plants typically required. Enough fuel for between 40 and 60 years of operation could be in the reactor from the beginning. The reactor could be buried below ground, where it could run for an estimated 100 years.[10] TerraPower described the concept of its main reactor design as a "Generation IV, liquid sodium-cooled fast reactor"."

This doesn't sound as safe as the Thorium decay cycle as the products of the decay appear to be safer than Plutonium but it's interesting technology

Its interesting that Bill Gates runs it.
Watch those links above and this one too, you'll learn so much.
I learned heaps digging stuff up in the last day or so.

Blinken Lays out Washington's Anti-China Agenda
http://youtu.be/IGCIg4BbxQU