4/4: 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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4/4: 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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| 0:00.0 | Elevate your summer nights with all the indulgence of the new Magnum Double Star Chaser. |
| 0:07.0 | With cracking chocolate, popcorn flavor and rich caramel sauce for the night. |
| 0:15.0 | Pleasure is always on. |
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| 0:25.0 | This is CBS I In The World. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm John Batch with Robert Zubrin. |
| 0:29.0 | His book is the case for nukes how we can be global warming and create a free, open and magnificent future. |
| 0:35.0 | Addressing the United States and what is to be done, but the ambition to grow more energy resources without |
| 0:43.0 | undercutting the environment in some fashion. |
| 0:47.0 | And we come to news. |
| 0:49.0 | Westinghouse Electric, the U.S. nuclear technology giant, is developing a compact version of its flagship power plant. |
| 0:57.0 | A move aimed at making its designs more competitive in markets that don't need large conventional reactors. |
| 1:04.0 | This is a report from Bloomberg News. |
| 1:07.0 | Most recently, Robert, this looks like a way forward as Westinghouse found the magic formula in Washington not only to build the air, but to export small reactors. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay. Well, they have found a potentially useful formula. |
| 1:24.0 | The, now, by the way, you should know right now the people dominating the nuclear reactor export market is Russia. |
| 1:32.0 | I believe there's soon going to be overtaken and pushed out of that by China, which has bought a few Russian nuclear reactors, have copied them and they're ready to go. |
| 1:41.0 | Okay. So China's all business. |
| 1:44.0 | They may support Russia more than the United States, but they're in it for the money. |
| 1:48.0 | And China is building 450 nuclear power plants domestically between now and the year 2050 and they're going to be exporting them everywhere. |
| 1:56.0 | But the Westinghouse, Westinghouse used to export nuclear power plants. So what they've come up with here is the design for a medium sized nuclear power plant 300 megawatts instead of the standard 1,000 or 1200, which has been the custom recently. |
| 2:10.0 | And the idea is to go for new cities in the developing world cities of 100, 200,000 people that are forming as countries in Africa, you know industrialized people leave the villages, they go to cities and the cities initially are of medium size. |
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