2/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023 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 Paperback – April 3, 2023 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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| 0:22.0 | This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Bachelorette with the author, Robert Zubrin. |
| 0:32.0 | His new book is the case for nukes how we can be global warming and create a free, open, and magnificent future. |
| 0:38.0 | What can go wrong and why? In chronological order. |
| 0:42.0 | A nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:46.0 | Three mile island number one is shut down number two as an anomaly. |
| 0:50.0 | What happened, Robert? Can you say it quickly? |
| 0:53.0 | Sure. Three mile island had a meltdown. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay. Now the possibility of such an accident was known before three mile island. |
| 1:03.0 | That is you can turn off the chain reaction in a nuclear reaction reactor instantly by dropping into control logs or simply letting the coolant boil out because without the coolant, the water. |
| 1:14.0 | The neutrons cannot be slowed down enough to give them a good chance of causing another fish. |
| 1:19.0 | So if the reactor gets too hot, the water goes away, fishing is shut down. |
| 1:24.0 | However, there are residual radioactive waste products in the nuclear fuel that are still decaying. |
| 1:32.0 | So you shut down the reactor and instantly the power level goes from 100% to 7%. |
| 1:38.0 | But then it only slowly decays from 7% down to 1% over the next several hours. |
| 1:43.0 | And if you don't cool it during that period, that he is enough to melt the fuel elements in the reactor. |
| 1:50.0 | Now the environmentalist said, oh, there's the it's going to melt through the reactor through the reactor pressure vessel, which is eight inches of steel, and then through the containment building, which is eight feet of reinforced concrete, and then through the earth's crust all the way to the center of the world. |
| 2:04.0 | And then the other side of the world and merges in China. |
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