Air Date: 10-12-2024

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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

A1: The Renaissance of Nuclear Power Part 1 - The Energy Gang - Air Date 1-27-23

A2: The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste - Huge If True - Air Date 5-10-23

A3: The Renaissance of Nuclear Power Part 2 - The Energy Gang - Air Date 1-27-23

A4: Nuclear waste is reusable. Why aren’t we doing it? - DW Planet A - Air Date 8-2-24

(1:31:22) SECTION B - CLIMATE

B1: The big environmental costs of rising demand for big data to power the internet - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 6-22-24

B2: The Three Mile Island Melt Up - Decouple - Air Date 9-20-24

B3: Nuclear Power and the Climate Emergency - Against the Grain - Air Date 7-1-24

(1:56:40) SECTION C - RISK

C1: Why does America need new nuclear weapons? Part 1 - On Point - Air Date 5-25-24

C2: Nuclear power in an unstable world - Front Burner - Air Date 7-10-23

C3: Why does America need new nuclear weapons? Part 2 - On Point - Air Date 5-25-24

C4: The world after nuclear war - The Gray Area with Sean Illing - Air Date 6-17-24

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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