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• Guest: Michael Shellenberger, nuclear power expert, environmentalist
• France: 75% nuclear powered, less pollution created, lower costs
• Germany: Abandoned nuclear, 50% higher energy costs, more pollution
• Sunless, windless days make those alternative possibilities unreliable
  • Both requires batteries, lots and lots of batteries
  • Environmental cost of batteries
  • Unreliable producers of energy
• Michael Shellenberger: We should stick with and develop
  • light water cooled nuclear solutions, not Gen IV
• Bill Gates has embraced Gen IV research and development
  • 12 startups are pursuing Gen IV technology
• Nuclear energy is promoted as safer, cleaner than coal
  • Congressional support for development is bipartisan
• Climate change people fear that more than nuclear concerns
  • If you’re pro-science, nuclear power is the best known answer
  • Solar and wind will NEVER provide world’s power needs

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