2/4: 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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2/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future by Robert Zubrin (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UeGVv&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=sJV8b&pd_rd_r=0137d795-3a42-44c6-84c4-74819fbb82e3&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk
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 and the World. I'm John Bachel with the author, Robert |
| 0:08.6 | Zubrim. His new book is The Case for Nukes, How We Can Be Global Warming and Create a Free |
| 0:13.4 | Open and Magnificent Future. What can go wrong and why? In chronological order, a nuclear |
| 0:20.3 | power plant in Pennsylvania, three mile island, number one is shut down, number two, as an |
| 0:26.4 | anomaly. What happened, Robert? Can you say it quickly? Sure. Three mile island had a meltdown, |
| 0:33.6 | okay? Now, the possibility of such an accident was known before three mile island. That is, |
| 0:40.4 | you can turn off the chain reaction in a nuclear reaction reactor instantly by dropping into |
| 0:46.2 | control rods or simply letting the coolant boil out because without the coolant, the water, |
| 0:50.9 | the neutrons cannot be slowed down enough to give them a good chance of causing another |
| 0:55.3 | vision. So if the reactor gets too hot, the water goes away, vision is shut down. However, |
| 1:01.9 | there are residual radioactive waste products in the nuclear fuel that are still decaying. So |
| 1:08.6 | you shut down the reactor and instantly the power level goes from 100% to 7%. But then it only |
| 1:14.8 | slowly decays from 7% down to 1% over the next several hours. And if you don't cool it during |
| 1:20.4 | the back period, that he is enough to melt the fuel elements in the reactor. Now, the environmentalist |
| 1:26.6 | said, oh, there's, it's going to melt through the reactor, through the reactor pressure vessel, |
| 1:31.3 | which is eight inches of steel, and then through the containment building, which is eight feet |
| 1:35.2 | of reinforced concrete, and then through the earth's crust all the way to the center of the world, |
| 1:39.4 | and then somehow going, oh, the other side of the world and emerges in China. |
| 1:43.7 | The same as syndrome, 1979. That's what you refer. That's right. The China syndrome. Now, |
| 1:49.2 | in 3 mile island, there was a natural ordinary reactor operator error that caused the |
| 1:55.0 | coolant to be drained out of one of the two 3 mile island reactors. And so the reactor instantly |
| 2:00.5 | shut down the vision chain, but it still has the decay heat. And so the fuel did melt, but it did |
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