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1/2: #NuclearPower: The radiological threat in wartime & What is to be done?. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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1/2: #NuclearPower: The radiological threat in wartime & What is to be done?. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/07/16/zaporizhia-braces-itself-for-russian-nuclear-tricks



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0:35.3

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Badgley, nuclear power plants in wartime.

0:41.9

I welcome Henry Sikowski, the Executive Director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center,

0:48.0

Henry and I for more than a year have been talking about Ukraine in specific,

0:52.7

but a presentation at the University of San Diego in coordination with the South Korean

0:58.1

Engineering University recently at the end of June raises questions that will continue for

1:03.8

the balance of this century across a wide landscape of countries that have chosen nuclear power

1:10.9

as an answer to fossil fuel use and also to the energy needs of countries that do not have

1:18.1

access, easy access to fossil fuel energy. Henry, a very good evening too. You have five questions

1:25.2

you present in your policy of remarks and I'll begin with the first, the most difficult of all

1:32.3

because it involves history. How as reactors vulnerability to military assault changed in the

1:40.1

last 20 years, changed, what have you seen in the last 20 years? Good evening.

1:48.3

What's changed is the ability to hit precisely specific critical nodes within a nuclear power plant

2:02.2

previously in the 70s and 80s and even the early part of the 90s but definitely the 70s and 80s.

2:13.2

We saw upwards to roughly a dozen attacks against reactors in the Middle East. This included

2:21.6

the sheer when it was under construction of Syrac and Iraq. The Mona was targeted

2:33.4

fecklessly but it was targeted in Israel and then the Syrian reactive.

2:42.2

In these historical examples, we lacked precision with regard to aiming

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