447. Nuclear Power Is Safer Than Wind and Solar | James Walker

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with nuclear physicist and CEO of Nano Nuclear, James Walker. They discuss why nuclear power is continuously sidelined for less efficient, less safe forms of power, the change from civic — massive — reactors to truck-sized units, the refinement process of uranium, and the true environmental cost of mass poverty. James Walker is a nuclear physicist and was the project lead and manager for constructing the new Rolls-Royce Nuclear Chemical Plant; he was the UK Subject Matter Expert for the UK Nuclear Material Recovery Capabilities and the technical project manager for constructing the UK reactor core manufacturing facilities. Walker’s professional engineering experience includes nuclear reactors, mines, submarines, chemical plants, factories, mine processing facilities, infrastructure, automotive machinery, and testing rigs. He has executive experience in several public companies, as well as acquiring and redeveloping the only fluorspar mine in the United States. - Links - 2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ For James Walker: Nano Nuclear on X https://twitter.com/nano_nuclear Nano Nuclear (Website) https://nanonuclearenergy.com/ Nano Nuclear on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/nano-nuclear-energy-inc/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody so I had a
0:16.2	I had a great discussion today with someone I've wanted to talk to
0:21.3	the type of person I've wanted to talk to for a long time and turned out to be exactly the
0:25.7	right person.
0:26.7	James Walker, he's a nuclear physicist and CEO of a very interesting company called
0:31.2	Nanonuclear and Nanow is making micro reactors that are
0:35.2	nuclear reactors that are portable that can be moved around on the back of trucks and this is something I'm very
0:40.0	interested in being interested in the nexus in the relationship between energy, environment, and the
0:46.2	amelioration of poverty. And it seems to me that investigating the provision of low-cost resilient, widely distributable nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels is
1:01.0	morally required, partly because we know, we know this isn't some wild hypothesis that if you can make people who are absolutely poverty stricken, relatively rich, they start to care about the environmental future.
1:17.0	And so what that means is the fastest way to environmental sustainability is by the amelioration of poverty and the best way to do that
1:25.6	is to provide low-cost energy and potentially the best way to do that is with nuclear energy.
1:32.2	And so I think these guys are on the cutting edge,
1:34.3	so I talked to James Walker,
1:36.6	who has an extremely interesting technical
1:39.0	and managerial background, military background as well,
1:42.1	about just exactly what they're up to.
1:45.0	That's all part and parcel of this.
1:47.0	So, you know, welcome aboard.
1:49.0	All right, Mr. Walker, James, you're CEO of Nanonuclear,
1:55.0	and you've got a cool title, I think,
1:56.6	head of reactor development, that's a cool title,
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