1/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future by Robert Zubrin (Author)
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🗓️ 5 July 2023
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1/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future by Robert Zubrin (Author)
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The Case for Nukes is a unique book. In it, world-renowned nuclear and aerospace engineer
Dr. Robert Zubrin explains how nuclear power works and how much it has to offer humanity. He
debunks the toxic falsehoods that have been spread to dissuade us from using it by variously the
ignorant, the fearful, the fanatical, and by cynical political operatives bought and paid for by
competing interests. He tells about revolutionary developments in the field, including new
reactor types that can be cheaply mass produced, that cannot be made to melt down no matter
how hard their operators try, that use a new fuel called thorium far more plentiful than uranium,
and still more advanced systems, employing thermonuclear fusion - the power that lights the sun
- to extract more energy from a gallon of water than can be obtained from 300 gallons of
gasoline. He tells about the bold entrepreneurs - a totally different breed from the government
officials who created the existing types of nuclear reactors - who are leading this revolution in
power technology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the World. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Bachelor with Robert Zubert. |
| 0:09.0 | His new book is The Case for Nukes. |
| 0:11.0 | How we can be global warming and create a free, open, and magnificent future. |
| 0:16.0 | Robert, you've addressed what can go wrong and why. |
| 0:19.0 | Two ice in the 20th century and once in the 21st century. |
| 0:23.0 | Nuclear plants were shaken by events. |
| 0:26.0 | At the same time, these events have not discouraged the building of new nuclear plants with new technology. |
| 0:33.0 | Here in the 21st century and you provide in your book a very careful list of where plants are under construction when they're going to be completed when they started. |
| 0:42.0 | And I see the list is very extensive and ambitious dominated by plants in China, although other parts of the world island, Eurasia everywhere. |
| 0:52.0 | However, what is striking is how few of these plants in fact, I only count two are in the USA. |
| 0:59.0 | What is the limitation of the richest country in the world about nuclear energy? |
| 1:05.0 | Is it what we just talked about through my island in Chernobyl or is it this other thing you produce costs? |
| 1:12.0 | Which is it Robert? |
| 1:14.0 | It's a hostile high high per regulation. |
| 1:18.0 | The Carter administration was heavily infiltrated by anti-nuclear people and they created a new regulatory structure for nuclear energy. |
| 1:29.0 | Which is so complex, I have a diagram in it. |
| 1:31.0 | In the book, it looks like the New York subway map. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, and actually it's more complicated than that because each of those subway stops involves a whole subway map inside of it. |
| 1:41.0 | This has caused the time it takes the nuclear power plant to be built in the United States to grow from three years, which is how long it took to build the first one. |
| 1:50.0 | It should be poured to 16 years now. |
| 1:53.0 | And as I show in the book, the cost of a nuclear power plant goes as its construction time squared. |
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