NECESSITY OF FRANCE'S NUCLEAR POWER FLEET: 3/4: 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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| 0:20.0 | This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelorette. With Robert Zubert, his new book is |
| 0:24.4 | the Case for Nukes, how we can be global warming and create a free, open, and magnificent future. |
| 0:30.4 | Robert, you've addressed what can go wrong and why. Two ice in the 20th century and once in the 21st |
| 0:36.5 | century, nuclear plants were shaken by events. But at the same time, these events have not |
| 0:43.3 | discouraged the building of new nuclear plants with new technology here in the 21st century, |
| 0:48.8 | and you provide in your book a very careful list of where plants are under construction |
| 0:53.7 | when they're going to be completed, when they started. And I see the list is very extensive and |
| 0:59.2 | ambitious, dominated by plants in China, although other parts of the world island, Eurasia, everywhere. |
| 1:06.4 | However, what is striking is how few of these plants, in fact, I only count two, are in the USA. |
| 1:14.2 | What is the limitation of the richest country in the world about nuclear energy? Is it what we |
| 1:19.7 | just talked about through my island in Chernobyl? Or is it this other thing you produce? Cause, |
| 1:26.3 | which is it, Robert? It's a hostile hyperregulation. The Carter administration was heavily |
| 1:35.7 | infiltrated by anti-nuclear people, and they created a new regulatory structure for nuclear energy, |
| 1:42.8 | which is so complex. I have a diagram in it. In the book, it looks like the New York subway map. |
| 1:48.9 | Actually, it's more complicated than that because each of those subway stops involves a whole subway |
| 1:53.3 | map inside of it. This has caused the time it takes a nuclear power plant to be built in the United |
| 1:59.2 | States to grow from three years, which is how long it took to build the first one. It should be |
| 2:04.4 | poured to 16 years now. As I show in the book, the cost of a nuclear power plant goes as its |
| 2:12.7 | construction time squared. If you multiply the time by a factor of five, you increase the cost |
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