The Climate for Nuclear Energy
Why It Matters
Council on Foreign Relations
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nuclear Energy. |
| 0:05.0 | Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear? |
| 0:08.0 | No, no, no, no, no, this sucker is electrical, |
| 0:12.0 | but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jiguans of electricity I need. |
| 0:16.3 | Watch out! Radioactive man! |
| 0:18.0 | Reach in the reactor room. We're getting radiation alarms from several more floors. |
| 0:21.2 | It's clean and efficient and barest safe until something goes horribly wrong. |
| 0:25.0 | It's the job of tomorrow. |
| 0:27.0 | J. A lot of our ideas about nuclear energy come from what we have seen on the big screen or on TV. |
| 0:42.4 | Mutants, super villains, and time-to-tense. on TV. |
| 0:43.0 | Mutants, super villains, and time-travelling cars, sure, but also the haunting legacies of real-life disasters. |
| 0:51.6 | Nuclear is just unsettling. |
| 0:54.0 | After all, no other energy source leaves behind radioactive waste that lasts for tens of thousands of years. |
| 1:02.0 | But nuclear energy is also for tens of thousands of years. |
| 1:03.2 | But nuclear energy is also widely misunderstood. |
| 1:06.8 | And as the climate crisis accelerates, many experts believe that it may be one of the best |
| 1:12.4 | tools we have for eliminating our dependence |
| 1:15.1 | on fossil fuels. I'm Gabriel Sierra and this is why it matters. Today the |
| 1:21.1 | truth about nuclear energy in the era of climate change. |
| 1:25.0 | Representatives from nearly 200 countries will convene in Glasgow, Scotland at the end of October for the COP26 conference to strengthen action against global warming. |
| 1:39.2 | No! No! No! And so what's your biggest fear? |
| 1:43.0 | A meltdown, a spent fuel fire, sabotage, tsunami, earthquake, man-made error, human mistakes, |
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