#1662 Renewing the Nuclear Age: Weapons, Energy, Climate Mitigation, and Risk

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Air Date 10/11/2024

Humans insatiable need for increasing amounts of energy and our tendency to want to at least have the option to wipe entire populations off the map has led to a renewed age of risks related to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and nuclear fallout.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Can clean energy handle the AI boom? - Vox - Air Date 10-1-24

KP 2: Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance - CNBC - Air Date 6-7-22

KP 3: Is Nuclear Energy the solution? - Our Changing Climate - Air Date 5-10-19

KP 4: Three Mile Island Is Reopening. Some Climate Scientists are Thrilled. - CNN One Thing - Air Date 9-25-24

KP 5: Warnings of Nuclear Catastrophe as Power Plants in Russia and Ukraine at Risk Amid Escalating War - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-29-24

KP 6: Are we facing a new nuclear arms race? - This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler - Air Date 9-17-24

(47:23) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the nature of humans and energy use

DEEPER DIVES

(54:59) SECTION A - ENERGY

(1:31:22) SECTION B - CLIMATE

(1:56:40) SECTION C - RISK

SHOW IMAGE CREDITS

Description: A photo of two, active nuclear power plant towers on the bank of a river at sunset.

Credit: “nuclear power plant, Rhine, flow” by distelAPPArath, Pixabay | License: Pixabay

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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