Nuclear power is safe.

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

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.

Should we allow the same mistake to happen again?

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

Iran is doing that right now.

So far there is only three sources of baseload electricity coal, some gas, nuclear and hydro.

And Venezuela would be doing it if they started with their nuclear energy facilities.

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

This has to be a bridge to the point where you can get to wind, to the point where you can get to solar, to the point where you can get to nuclear and hopefully you won't build the next nuclear plant on a beautiful seashore next to an earthquake fault.

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.

So when somebody says,

The black color shows where earthquakes occurred in the past.

Our government is going to put in six new nuclear power stations.

Nuclear power plants supply 20 of the nation's electricity.

We're often told though that only coal and nuclear plants can keep the lights on, because they're 24 7, whereas wind and solar power are variable, and hence supposedly unreliable.

Nuclear power is used to generate electricity.

Secondly, think about this.

Here is an atomic power plant.

Starvation, 3,000,000 malaria, 250,000 car crashes, 100,000 quakes and tsunamis 28,000.

The radioactivity leaked out of the nuclear power plant.

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

It was announced that there is a high possibility of the fuel within the nuclear reactor of Nuclear Plant 1 melting.

John McCain Nuclear power must be part of any equation.

You would still be much better off establishing an entire world powered by nuclear power.

Rays consisting of electrons that are emitted from Atoms of radioactive elements.

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

Typically, these things are put in the ground.

And it just sits there and burns for the 60 years, and then it's done.

Because remember, this is what drives the prosperity in the developing world in the villages and in the cities.

At the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, all the reactors stopped just after the quake.

Let's consider the atom some more.

Especially people who have children, small children.

Well, according to the box the story is

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

Nuclear power plants don't appeal to everybody.

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We therefore are as peoples, hostages of the abominable and terrifying nuclear power that has been imposed on us and terrifying nuclear power that has been imposed on us at the end of World War Il.

So, what do we do about that?

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

This map shows where earthquakes happened in the past and the places of nuclear power plants.

By 1950, about 200,000 people in Hiroshama and Nagasaki died of radiation related illnesses or side effects.

Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons.

There are other options for generating power as well, which don't involve fossil fuels.

But that leads to an obvious question of, well, how many neutrons and electrons do you have?