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https://www.reuters.com/world/how-might-us-saudi-civil-nuclear-deal-work-2024-05-18/
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the case for nukes how we can be able. |
| 0:05.0 | This is CBSi and the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Batcheer with the author Robert Zubrin. |
| 0:10.0 | His new book is the case for nukes, how we can beat global warming and create a free, open, |
| 0:14.8 | and magnificent future. |
| 0:16.2 | What can go wrong and why? |
| 0:17.7 | In chronological order. |
| 0:20.2 | A nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:23.0 | Three Mile Island, number one is shut down, number two, as an anomaly. |
| 0:28.0 | What happened, Robert? Can you say it quickly? |
| 0:30.0 | Sure. |
| 0:31.0 | Three Mile Island had a meltdown. |
| 0:34.0 | Okay, now the possibility of such an accident was known before Three Mile Island. |
| 0:41.0 | That is, you can turn off the chain reaction in a nuclear reaction |
| 0:44.4 | reactor instantly by dropping into control logs or simply letting the |
| 0:48.6 | coolant boil out because without the coolant, the water the neutrons cannot be slowed down enough to give them a good chance of |
| 0:55.5 | costing another fission. So if the reactor gets too hot, the water goes away, fishing is shut down. |
| 1:01.8 | However, there are residual radioactive waste products in the nuclear fuel that are still |
| 1:08.8 | decaying so you shut down the reactor and instantly the power level goes from 100% to 7% but then it only slowly |
| 1:16.2 | decays from 7% down to 1% over the next several hours and if you don't cool it during that |
| 1:21.7 | period it that heat is enough to melt the fuel elements in the reactor. |
| 1:26.5 | Now the environmentalists said, oh, there's, it's going to melt through the reactor, |
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