DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN REVISITING NUCLEAR POWER IMMEDIATELY: 1/4: 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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. Nuclear energy from the 20th century |
| 0:13.2 | nuclear energy begins with the use of the atomic weapons in anger in 1945. Proceeding from that, however, is a rethink of nuclear energy. |
| 0:24.4 | Adams for Peace was the program that the Eisenhower administration brought forward. |
| 0:29.3 | There was also the question of nuclear energy used for weapons of war, the Nautilus submarine. |
| 0:36.1 | Both of these examples I have from a new book, Robert Zubrens, |
| 0:40.0 | The Case for Nukes, How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent |
| 0:45.6 | Future. Nuclear Energy has a cloud over it from the 20th century. It's not a radioactive cloud. |
| 0:52.9 | It's a cloud of worry, of risk, of doubt by the general |
| 0:57.2 | public in the United States and around the world. After incidents in the 20th century, very much |
| 1:03.0 | introduced the question of, is it trustworthy? Is it safe? However, there's much more to say, |
| 1:08.4 | and I welcome Robert Zuberin to comment on a poetic construction he offers early in his explication. |
| 1:15.6 | To preserve the natural world, which is the goal of sustainable energy and of green technology and those concerned with climate change, to preserve the natural world, you must use artificial sources. |
| 1:29.7 | Robert, a very good evening to you. I paraphrase you, so I ask you to explain your formula. |
| 1:36.1 | Good evening to you. Well, good evening to you, and thanks for inviting me on your show. |
| 1:40.7 | I've always enjoyed it, and I'm very proud to be a guest on it myself now. |
| 1:45.3 | Well, yes, if you want to do nature a favor, draw your resources from things that nature does |
| 1:52.5 | not use. Okay. Who saved the whales? Rockefeller saved the whales by creating the oil industry. |
| 1:59.7 | The whales would have been hunted to extinction |
| 2:01.3 | for their oil if we hadn't switched to petroleum, which is a resource that nature makes only |
| 2:06.3 | very limited use of. The people who say we should get our energy the natural way by burning |
| 2:12.4 | wood are causing the destruction of forests and the deaths of innumerable animals, |
| 2:18.3 | whereas nuclear energy comes from an element found in lots |
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