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🗓️ 17 May 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Denmark, Copenhagen. Denmark is considering |
0:11.1 | Reuters, lifting a 40-year-old ban on nuclear power to enhance its energy security, marking a significant |
0:19.1 | policy shift in a country that has prioritized wind and solar. |
0:23.9 | The Danish government will analyze the potential benefits of a new nuclear power technologies |
0:28.4 | and report expected later this year. |
0:31.6 | And why? |
0:33.5 | We go to Spain. |
0:35.3 | The Spain-Portugal blackout has led Denmark, as well as Norway and Sweden, to reassess their commitment to renewables. |
0:44.7 | There was a moment that existed when Spain and Portugal were actually net zero. |
0:51.7 | That's when they were completely run by renewables and then they weren't. I welcome |
0:57.6 | Henry Sikolsky, the executive director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center. We're going in two |
1:04.0 | directions here. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are talking about bringing back nuclear power |
1:09.2 | to subsidize or augment. They're admittedly, |
1:13.7 | extremely extravagant, renewable generation. Spain, on the other hand, is talking about its |
1:20.3 | electrical grid. Henry, a very good evening to you. I believe both those items are in your wheelhouse. |
1:26.0 | Let's start with the electrical grid. |
1:28.5 | What does Spain need to know about what China is selling? Good evening to. |
1:33.2 | Good evening. It's great to be on your program. Thank you for having me again. What we are learning |
1:39.2 | and what we're concluding seems to be an inverse proportion to the distance from wherever the |
1:46.4 | problem is. So if you're in Spain, your conclusion is we got to worry about the security and |
1:55.5 | fragility of the grid. And if you're in the north and you have had a debate over whether to invest in |
2:03.8 | generation and nuclear generation in particular, you use this problem as if the way to solve |
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