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The Chris Cuomo Project

Nuclear Roundtable, Part 1 (with Michael Shellenberger, Jessica Lovering, and Heather Hoff & Kristin Zaitz)

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In a special two-part episode of The Chris Cuomo Project in partnership with the Nuclear Energy Institute, Chris explores whether nuclear power is more dangerous than other forms of energy. Michael Shellenberger (founder, Environmental Progress, and author, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All”), Jessica Lovering (co-founder, Good Energy Collective), and Heather Hoff & Kristin Zaitz (co-founders, Mothers for Nuclear) join Chris to analyze potential risks posed by nuclear power plants, clarify differences between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, understand how perceptions of nuclear energy are changing, and much more. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, and welcome to the Chris Cuomo project.

0:03.7

Thank you for subscribing.

0:05.1

Thank you for following your comments or welcome, especially with what we have today.

0:09.5

Now you remember our mantra, right?

0:11.4

Be a free agent.

0:12.4

I tell you to wear your independence.

0:15.0

Go to that store, get your free agent merch, wear it proudly, why?

0:18.3

Because you're a critical thinker.

0:20.2

And that's exactly what takes us to our topic today.

0:23.0

Now I grew up believing that nuclear power was everything we saw on the Simpsons.

0:28.6

Okay, we don't use it because it kills you because it makes everything radioactive.

0:33.6

It's too dangerous.

0:35.0

It's too dirty.

0:36.6

And it was just a waste of time and should be eradicated.

0:39.7

And I believe that for a very long time, that is until I started to do some research.

0:46.6

And I started to think about why was I hearing that France was coming up so much with new

0:51.1

nuclear.

0:52.8

And then you're seeing it at Southeast Asia.

0:55.0

And you're hearing it about it and other big fossil fuel producing companies.

0:58.7

And then I started to look to see that there's all this new technology that America actually

1:03.1

was at the forefront with, not just with weaponry, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

1:08.3

I always thought they were like the same kind of thing.

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