NECESSITY OF FRANCE'S NUCLEAR POWER FLEET: 2/4: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future by Robert Zubrin (Author)
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
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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.
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| 0:20.4 | This is CBS Eye in the World, I'm John Bachelor with the author, Robert Zubrin. |
| 0:24.9 | His new book is the case for Nuke's how we can be global warming and create a free open |
| 0:29.7 | and magnificent future. What can go wrong and why? In chronological order, |
| 0:35.2 | a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, Three Mile Island, number one is shut down, number two, |
| 0:41.6 | as an anomaly. What happened, Robert? Can you say it quickly? |
| 0:45.6 | Sure. Three Mile Island had a meltdown, okay? Now, the possibility of such an accident |
| 0:53.4 | was known before Three Mile Island. That is, you can turn off the chain reaction in a nuclear |
| 0:59.0 | reaction reactor instantly by dropping into control logs or simply letting the coolant boil out |
| 1:04.5 | because without the coolant, the water, the neutrons cannot be slowed down enough to give them a |
| 1:10.0 | good chance of causing another fish. So if the reactor gets too hot, the water goes away, |
| 1:15.6 | fishing is shut down. However, there are residual radioactive waste products in the nuclear fuel |
| 1:22.7 | that are still decaying, so you shut down the reactor and instantly the power level goes from 100% |
| 1:28.8 | to 7%, but then it only slowly decays from 7% down to 1% over the next several hours. |
| 1:35.2 | And if you don't cool it during that period, that he is enough to melt the fuel elements in the reactor. |
| 1:41.8 | Now, the environmentalist said, oh, there's the, it's going to melt through the reactor, |
| 1:46.4 | through the reactor pressure vessel, which is eight inches of steel, and then through the |
| 1:49.8 | containment building, which is eight feet of reinforced concrete, and then through the Earth's |
| 1:54.0 | crust all the way to the center of the world, and then somehow going up the other side of the world |
| 1:59.2 | and emerges in China. That's what you refer. That's right, the China syndrome. Now, in 3-mile |
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