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I Really Do Think Cancer Will Largely Be A Solved Problem. I Think Most Of The Infectious Diseases Like Malaria - Our Foundation Is Very Involved - Once We're Finishing Polio Eradication, Then Starting Up This Malaria Eradication, And Getting That Done As Fast As We Can.

With Polio, We've Gone Several Years With No Polio In All Of Africa, But Now With This We're Having To Go And Mop Up In That Whole Region, So It's A Bit Of A Setback For Polio. So In Parallel We Have To Go Back And Get Rid Of Those Cases.

The Nuclear Approach I'm Involved In Is Called A Traveling-wave Reactor, Which Uses Waste Uranium For Fuel. There's A Lot Of Things That Have To Go Right For That Dream To Come True - Many Decades Of Building Demo Plants, Proving The Economics Are Right. But If It Does, You Could Have Cheaper Energy With No Co2 Emissions.

If We Think Long Term, The Younger Generation Here Is Better About Embracing The World. Not Seeing Countries Boundaries Kind Of An "us Versus Them" Thing.

It's An Experiment, And It's Probably Good To Have A Couple States Try It Out To See Before You Make That National Policy.