Nukes of Hazard: 60 Years of Atomic Accidents

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As the world looks to alternative sources of energy, are we ready for the growth of nuclear power? Do we understand the risk that comes with atomic technology? Historian and author Serhii Plokhy joins Arthur Snell to discuss his new book Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima, which looks at six nuclear disasters that shook the world, and the lessons we can learn from them. “The history of nuclear disasters is very relevant to us today.” “Every nuclear accident produces a pause in the industry as people get scared.” “If we are not prepared to tolerate nuclear accidents then we have to look for alternative energy sources.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Arthur Snell. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.0	Seri Plocki, who is a professor of history at Harvard, control. It's atoms and ashes from bikini atoll to Fukushima and it covers a series of nuclear disasters from the 1950s to the 21st century.
1:41.0	It's an extraordinarily gripping story and I'm delighted to be joined by
1:45.3	Seri today. Seri welcome. Well Arthur thank you for this introduction. It's a
1:50.5	pleasure to be on the podcast.
1:52.8	Well, Sir he, as I said, rather like that TV show Chernobyl,
1:57.5	I think lots of people may have started watching that thinking,
2:00.4	I'm not really sure if I really care very much about this story. It's just a bit of history, but it's incredibly gripping. There's something about the terrifying power of nuclear technology and the fact that it does go wrong, I'm not going to say often, but it does go wrong,
2:16.2	that makes it fascinating in a rather sinister way.
2:20.5	Well, certainly it is a work of history, or at least the way how I intended to write that book.
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