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Hello and welcome to Experimental View with me, Asim Azal.

The world is changing it's an amazing pace and we're entering the exponential age.

It's a fundamental rewrite of our economic and social order catalyzed by radical, remarkable technologies.

On this podcast, I want to make some clarity to the complexity of this change and help understand

the trajectories of these technologies and their implications in business, economics, geopolitics and our lives.

In today's discussion, I turn to the question of nuclear power.

This technology has struggled with public perception, regulation and cost for many years.

But can nuclear power find a place in our new, clean, green societies?

Now, I've got a history with nuclear power.

As a 10-year-old, I went on a school trip to visit Bradwell Nuclear Power Station in the north of Essex in the UK.

Bradwell was a huge, brutalist, complex, large, concrete cube set by the banks of the river Blackwater.

My friends and I received a tour of the facility, seeing the control room and receiving a goodie bag at the end of the day.

That leaving gift included booklets on the future of electricity.

It would be too cheap to meet her and stickers that declared my love of fishing.

Those stickers ended up on my door.

Bradwell, an old designed for a comparatively small nuclear power station, was decommissioned in 2002, after 40 years of service.

A few years later, I was planning on visiting the Soviet Union as part of a school trip to practice my Russian language.

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