It's a shame so few people see documentaries, and that so few politicians pay them any attention, because this film has the power to change the way
we think about nuclear energy.
Not exact matches
For the first part of your question only (national security threat), from an author I don't fully agree with on Uranium and Russia (he
thinks the sanctions on Russia are really
about natural gas and he
thinks the sanctions are foolish)- he proves that Russia is a large producer of Uranium while the US is seeing a decline in production and imports quite a bit of Uranium for
nuclear energy production (sourced from the EIA).
Cuomo personally drove his team to
think creatively
about FitzPatrick and
nuclear energy in late 2015, before his state of the state address in mid-January.
«This earthquake was something that was not foreseen by anybody, but it managed to change the way that people
thought about nuclear power rather dramatically,» said Shcherbakova, who also serves as director of the Master of Science in
Energy Management program at UT Dallas.
«With a scaled up solution, not only will we no longer have to
think about the dangers of storing radioactive waste long - term, but we will have a viable solution to close the
nuclear fuel cycle and contribute to solving the world's
energy needs.
«Getting there, if you
think about nuclear fusion, is going to take some moments of discovery, some «aha» moments,» Synakowski said in his talk, «Reimagining the Possible: Scientific Transformations Shaping the Path Towards Fusion
Energy.»
If we are going to make a transition, for example, from fossil fuels to
nuclear energy or to solar
energy or to wind
energy, if you
think about that as a major source of
energy during the next 50 years from now, you better start right now.
If I can force you to guess, do you
think that you'd find a similar (what you consider to be paradoxical) pattern play out with the associations between political views and beliefs
about evolution / scientific expert opinion on evolution... or
nuclear energy... or other issues that display a similar pattern of association between political orientation and interpretations of scientific evidence / how experts interpret that evidence?
As far as is known, the risks from this type of low level contamination are small, but as we contemplate on one hand trying to clear up all the old
nuclear sites, and on the other, building new plants, it may be wise to
think about the long term implications of relying on
nuclear energy.
One, James Hansen, says that to
think world leaders are doing something significant
about the problem is «baloney», and urges the use of
nuclear power and every other form of
energy which does not involve the release of carbon.
To understand the alternative that is being deferred by all the muddleheaded
thinking about renewables, bio fuels,
energy efficiency etc.,
nuclear power could provide almost all the world's
energy in 2100, 2200,2300, 2400, 2500,....
Anyhow, it seems if what
think as very unlikely [or impossible] were to occur, that people living in 2040 would see there is a problem and get serious
about building and using
nuclear energy so as to reduce future CO2 emission.
If the mix of
energy technologies cheap, powerful and acceptable enough to bring this shift
about includes one or more of solar,
nuclear fusion or
nuclear fission (and who, seriously,
thinks it won't?)
These ads reflect people's anxiety
about the safety of
nuclear reactors and the disapproval they feel
about having their hard - earned money spent on something they clearly
think is a bad idea, especially when safer, more affordable, less risky
energy choices exist such as efficiency, wind, solar, and bioenergy.
In fact, before Brook heard
about fourth generation
nuclear, he
thought the global warming problem was intractable because his own calculations confirmed the observations of many others (including
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, MIT President Susan Hockfield and US Senator Lamar Alexander) regarding the necessity of nuclear power due to the problems with renewables being able to scale to meet our energy
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, MIT President Susan Hockfield and US Senator Lamar Alexander) regarding the necessity of
nuclear power due to the problems with renewables being able to scale to meet our
energy energy needs.
[2] A recent Eurobarometer poll also confirms that almost 90 % of the EU population is concerned
about climate change; 82 % are well aware that the way their country consumes and produces
energy has a negative impact on the climate and 61 %
think that the share of
nuclear energy should be decreased due to concerns such as
nuclear waste and the danger of accidents.
The addition of heat from fossil fuel derived,
nuclear and fusion
energy can be
thought about in a straightforward manner.