To everyone bashing Intellectual Ventures, the key here is that TerraPower is a spinoff. They are becoming independent of IV precisely because they don't want t

To everyone bashing Intellectual Ventures, the key here is that TerraPower is a spinoff. They are becoming independent of IV precisely because they don't want to be a patent troll. Also one LOL of having Bill Gates fund your nuclear company is you end up with the biggest Windows cluster for simulations. Source: I'm a PhD student in nuclear engineering with friends working at TerraPower.