BEGIN PROLIFERATION TO SAUDI ARABIA. 3/4: 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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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.
1961 THE BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR PROPULSION
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CVS in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Robert Zubert. His new book is the case for nukes, |
| 0:11.0 | how we can be global warming and create a free, open and magnificent future. |
| 0:15.0 | Robert, you've addressed what can go wrong and why. |
| 0:18.0 | Twice in the 20th century and once in the 21st century, nuclear plants were shaken by events. |
| 0:25.0 | But at the same time, these events have not discouraged the building of new nuclear plants with new technology |
| 0:32.0 | here in the 21st century and you provide in your book a very |
| 0:35.9 | careful list of where plants are under construction when they're going to be completed, |
| 0:40.1 | when they started. |
| 0:41.6 | And I see the list is very extensive and ambitious, dominated by plants |
| 0:46.5 | in China, although other parts of the World Island, Eurasia, everywhere. |
| 0:51.3 | However, what is striking is how few of these plants, in fact I only count |
| 0:56.7 | two, are in the USA. What is the limitation of the richest country in the world about nuclear energy. |
| 1:04.2 | Is it what we just talked about, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, or is it this other thing |
| 1:08.8 | you produce, costs? |
| 1:11.3 | Which is it, Robert? It's hostile hyper-regulation. The Carter |
| 1:18.8 | administration was heavily infiltrated by anti-nuclear people and they created a new regulatory |
| 1:25.3 | structure for nuclear energy which is so complex. I have a diagram in it of it in the book |
| 1:31.0 | it looks like the New York subway map. |
| 1:33.4 | Okay, and actually it's more complicated than that because each of those subway stops |
| 1:37.0 | involves a whole subway map inside of it. |
| 1:40.0 | And this has caused the time it takes a nuclear power plant to be built in the United States to grow from three years, |
| 1:45.8 | which is how long it took to build the first one at shipping port, to 16 years now. |
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