DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN REVISITING NUCLEAR POWER IMMEDIATELY: 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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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 CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchew with Robert Zubrin. |
| 0:09.3 | His book is The Case for Nukes, How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, |
| 0:13.6 | and Magnificent Future. |
| 0:15.8 | Addressing the United States and what is to be done about the ambition to grow more energy resources without |
| 0:22.8 | undercutting the environment in some fashion. And we come to news. Westinghouse Electric, the U.S. |
| 0:32.0 | nuclear technology giant, is developing a compact version of its flagship power plant, a move aimed at making |
| 0:39.0 | its designs more competitive in markets that don't need large conventional reactors. |
| 0:44.7 | This is a report from Bloomberg News most recently. |
| 0:48.7 | Robert, this looks like a way forward. |
| 0:50.7 | Has Westinghouse found the magic formula in Washington, not only to build gear, but to |
| 0:55.7 | export small reactors? Okay. Well, they have found a potentially useful formula. |
| 1:04.4 | Now, by the way, you should know right now the people dominating the nuclear reactor export |
| 1:09.8 | market is Russia. I believe they're soon |
| 1:13.0 | going to be overtaken and pushed out of that by China, which has bought a few Russian nuclear |
| 1:18.3 | reactors have copied them and they're ready to go. Okay. So China's all business. They may |
| 1:24.3 | support Russia more than the United States, but they're in it for the money. |
| 1:33.5 | And China is building 450 nuclear power plants domestically between now and the year 2050, |
| 1:35.2 | and they're going to be exporting them everywhere. |
| 1:39.5 | But the Westinghouse used to export nuclear power plants. |
| 1:47.0 | So what they've come up with here is a design for a medium-sized nuclear power plant, 300 megawatts instead of the standard 1,000 or 1,200, which has been the custom recently. And the idea is to go for new cities |
| 1:54.0 | in the developing world, cities of 100, 200,000 people that are forming as countries in Africa, |
| 2:00.5 | industrialized. |
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