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BEGIN PROLIFERATION TO SAUDI ARABIA. 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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BEGIN PROLIFERATION TO SAUDI ARABIA. 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)


https://www.reuters.com/world/how-might-us-saudi-civil-nuclear-deal-work-2024-05-18/

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=UeGVv&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=143-0258134-6610437&pd_rd_wg=sJV8b&pd_rd_r=0137d795-3a42-44c6-84c4-74819fbb82e3&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

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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This is a

0:05.0

CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Robert Zubran.

0:09.0

His book is The Case for Nukes,

0:11.0

how we can beat global warming and create a free open and

0:13.8

magnificent future. Addressing the United States and what is to be done

0:18.1

about the ambition to grow more energy resources without undercutting the environment in some fashion.

0:27.7

And we come to News.

0:29.9

Westinghouse Electric, the U.S. Nuclear Technology Giant, is developing a compact version of its

0:35.8

flagship power plant, a move aimed at making its designs more competitive in markets that don't

0:42.1

need large conventional reactors.

0:44.8

This is a report from Bloomberg News most recently.

0:48.6

Robert, this looks like a way forward.

0:50.6

Has Westinghouse found the magic formula in Washington not only to build

0:55.1

here but to export small reactors? Okay well they have found a potentially

1:01.8

useful formula.

1:04.0

Now, by the way, you should know, right now the people dominating the nuclear reactor

1:09.4

export market is Russia.

1:12.0

I believe they're soon going to be overtaken and pushed out of that by China,

1:16.0

which has bought a few Russian nuclear reactors have copied them

1:20.0

and they're ready to go.

1:21.0

Okay, so China is all business. They may support Russia more than the United States but they're in it for the money.

1:27.2

And China's building 450 nuclear power plants domestically between now and the year 2050 and they're going to be

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