What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
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🗓️ 25 September 2022
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Nuclear technology has become more important than ever, thanks to a global energy crisis and climate change. But it also has a complicated history.
Guest: Joshua Keating
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 0:23.9 | On Wednesday of this week, Ukraine's state-run nuclear power company put out a brief statement. |
| 0:29.4 | It said that the Zaporizhya nuclear power plant in the southern part of the country had been |
| 0:33.6 | damaged by Russian shelling. The plant has been under Russian control since March and the |
| 0:39.4 | United Nations recently sent inspectors there. It is obvious that the plant and the physical |
| 0:46.3 | integrity of the plant has been violated several times. By chance, by deliberation, |
| 0:54.0 | we don't have the elements to assess that, but this is a reality that we have to recognize, |
| 1:00.0 | and this is something that cannot continue to happen. The UN is trying to establish a special |
| 1:05.9 | protection zone around the plant to keep it and the neighboring areas safe. The Ukrainian staff |
| 1:12.0 | is still there. They're basically being held prisoner working on the plant. |
| 1:17.4 | That's Josh Keating. He's the Global Security Reporter at Grid News, and he's written about Zaporizhya. |
| 1:23.3 | There have been concerns because there's been shelling around the plant, the electricity that |
| 1:30.5 | wires that run to the plant, that keep its cooling systems working, have been delivered. There |
| 1:35.6 | have been real concerns about a dangerous release of radiation from that plant to the surrounding |
| 1:42.4 | area. As if the other dangers of this war weren't bad enough for the area surrounding this plant, |
| 1:50.7 | they have to worry about the possibility of a three-mile island or Fukushima-type radiation release as |
| 1:58.0 | well. The ongoing saga of Zaporizhya feels like an encapsulation of both the best and worst |
| 2:06.1 | of nuclear technology. Before the war, Josh says, Ukraine got about half its electricity from nuclear |
| 2:12.4 | power, but since the Russian invasion, both the plant's fate and the specter of nuclear weapons |
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