Nuclear power is safe.

At least, at the moment, we have no way of burning coal without producing huge clouds of carbon dioxide that warm the planet. George W. Bush clean safe nuclear power.

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Putting together a report for the NRC.

He wants the NRC to investigate.

DESVARlEUX Now joining us to discuss the unfolding of the events at Fukushima is Arnie

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upped the level of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from level 5 to level 7.

I heard from Nathan Myhrvold and I think here's the action point it'll take an act of Congress to make the Nuclear Regulatory Commission start moving quickly on these small reactors, which we need very much, here and in the world.

Richard Heinberg kindly agreed to talk to me via the internet.

Atomic Nuclear

John McCain Nuclear power must be part of any equation.

Nobody in the world knew that a self sustained fission chain reaction was even possible up until somewhere around 1938. Very few people understand all these options that are available in nuclear energy.

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Step three get rid of all the utilities gas, water, electric, nuclear...

The new security conditions.

This shows if you do stupid designs, something bad will happen, even after 40 years.

So for a new market to take off, lots of things external to your startup need to happen.

And number two, do not build a reformer on the ocean.

A member of the joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee...

Let's talk a little bit about how nuclear fission works.

Let's split up.

And one last slide I just want to show. This is the choice

We can certainly see this in response to the current financial crisis.

First, China provided rare earth elements very cheaply to everybody in the world by their cheap labor, lack of enforceable environmental regulations, and their appreciate currency.

Typically, these things are put in the ground.

Over the ocean, it's not even land.

I need two people from either side.

How could you want to raise children in a city like this?

Now if we go to the area,

We live in the atomic age.

Enter the atomic number.

And he said, Oh, that's great.

Iran is doing that right now.

21.6 is from natural gas, 1.6 is from petroleum, 19.4 is from nuclear, 5.8 is from hydro.

We have complete access over networks phones, power grids, water, nuclear.

But let's go back to safety, because everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear, and one of the things when I set out to design a power reactor was it had to be passively and intrinsically safe, and I'm really excited about this reactor for essentially two reasons.

The atomic radius is the distance from the atomic nucleus to the outmost stable electron orbital in a atom that is at equilibrium.

You know, we live in a world that's subjected to ever more stringent child safety regulations.

Joshua doesn't either. He's doing everything he can to figure it out.

If you use wind, you guarantee ice will last.

I used to worry about the 10,000 year factor.

Now you don't find several thousand targets in that area.

You've got a nuclear sub?

You've got a nuclear sub? Seawolf sub.

That's the job of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but their earlier resolute stance has been swayed whenever they had a closed meeting with the electric power companies.